Drivelling Dotage
. In weak old age saliva drops unconsciously from the mouth.
“This exhibition of drivelling dotage was at tended with many other incoherent expressions.”—J. P. Kennedy The Swallow Barn, chap. xlvii. p. 463.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.