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Words leaking out before a brain was consulted.
means Silly, meaningless talk or writing that has little sense or value — nonsense dribbled out loud.
from From Old English dreflian, meaning to dribble saliva or mucus from the mouth — the literal slobber of an infant or a fool. The word kept that drooling image as it slid from mouths to minds: talk so witless it seemed to spill out uncontrolled, like spit from slack lips.
- origin
- old english for nasal mucus, dripping
- sounds like
- what it means, slobbery and dumb
- related sin
- cousin of twaddle, balderdash, and claptrap
- best used
- to dismiss speeches without reading them