Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Drivelling Dotage

In weak old age saliva drops unconsciously from the mouth.

“This exhibition of drivelling dotage was attended with many other incoherent expressions.” —J. P. Kennedy The Swallow Barn, chap. xivii. p. 463.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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