Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dribble n.

meaningless chatter.

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[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 6/1: For this ridiculous rhodomontade Dr. Newman is said to have received the enormous sum of $19,000. ‘Ridiculous rhodomontade’ is a good phrase. We wish we had thought of it when our own prelates and parsons in and out of the Press were churning out similar epileptic dribble about the paltry creature the late Duke of Albany.
[UK]E. Pound letter 17 July in Read Letters to James Joyce (1968) 144: Enough of this dribble forgive the maunderings of a convalescent.
[US]W. Winchell On Broadway 13 Jan. [synd. col.] Margo read it [i.e. a rumour] but dismissed it as being so much dribble.
[US]M. Spillane One Lonely Night 89: There’s too much dribble and not enough pep talk at those meetings.

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