driver, n. 1. chauffeur, coachman, reinsman, whip, Irish Eng. jarvey; busdriver, motorman; taxi-driver, cabdriver, cabman, Inf. cabby, Inf hack or hackie, U.S. hackman; truck driver, trucker, teamster; wagoner, muleteer, SI. mule skinner.
2. motorist, automobilist, Sunday driver, Inf. joyrider, SI. road hog.
3. cowboy, cowpuncher, cowpoke, cow hand, bronco buster, Western U.S. buckaroo, Southwestern U.S. vaquero, gaucho; drover, cowherd, cattle-herder, Chiefly Brit, grazier, Brit, cowman, Obs. neatherd.
drizzle, v. sprinkle, spray, mist, Chiefly Dial, miz
zle; spray, wet, dribble.
droll, adj. 1. funny, humorous, clownish, comic, comical; laughable, ridiculous, facetious, jocular, joking, witty, waggish; amusing, diverting, entertaining, sportive, jocose, merry; farcical, ludicrous, zany.
2. bizarre, quaint, whimsical, queer, strange, odd, eccentric; outlandish, grotesque, SI. rum. drollery, n. jest, joke, witticism, waggery; mummery, buffoonery, zanyism, farce, absurdity, burlesque; humor, wit, dry wit, esprit; prank, tomfoolery, shenanigan, monkeyshine.
drone¹, n. parasite, leech, sponger, Inf. sponge, Inf. deadbeat; do-nothing, idler, faineant, loafer, Inf. bum, sluggard, slugabed, lazybones; laggard, loiterer, lounger, lingerer, trifler, dawdler, dallier; daydreamer, lotus-eater; shirker, goldbrick, SI. goof-off; good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, Fr. vaurien, worthless person. drone², v. 1. buzz, hum, murmur, bombilate, bombinate, whisper; whizz, whir, wheeze, sibilate, hiss, fizzle, sizzle; sigh, rustle, sough.
-n. 2. buzz, hum, murmur, bombination; purr, whirring; sibilation, hiss, whizz; sigh, rustle, sough. drool, v. 1. water at the mouth, drivel, dribble, drip saliva, slaver, slobber; sputter, splutter.
2. babble, gibber, SI. gibber-jabber, blather, blether, Inf. blither. See drivel (def. 2).
-n. 3. drivel, slaver, slobber, slabber. See drivel (def. 4). droop, v. 1. sag, hang down, give way; bend, bow, (of trees, flowers, etc.) nod; slouch, crouch, stoop; dip, lean, curve; sink, slump, settle, drop; hang loosely, swag, depend from, dangle, loll.
2. languish, Dial, dwine, flag, fade, faint, weaken; wither, wilt, shrivel, decay, molder, rot; decline, wane, ebb, fall off; fail, deteriorate, degenerate; waste away, melt away, fade away or out.
3. despond, falter, give in or way, lose hope, lose heart, give up, surrender, quit, SI. pack it in, cry quits, throw in the towel, throw in the sponge; pine away, mope, mourn, lament, grieve, sorrow. drop, n. 1. globule, glob, droplet, bead, gutta; blob, bubble; dewdrop, pearl, tear; spheroid, oval; earring, ornament, pendant.
2. (usu. all of liquid) small quantity, bit, little, Inf. smidgen, minim, Chiefly Brit., Inf. spot; speck, trickle, splotch, daub, dash, pinch, dab, trace, sprinkling; driblet, particle, mite, modicum, minimum, moiety; (all usu. of alcohol) swallow, dram, toast, sip, draught, Inf. nip, Inf bracer, Inf. swig.
3. confection, candy, hard candy, sweet, bonbon, Trademark, life-saver; lozenge, cough drop, glycerine tablet.
4. fall, descent, declivity, slope, sloping; incline, inclination, declination, declension; precipice, abyss, chasm.
5. decline, fall-off, drop-off; depreciation, devaluation; deterioration, downgrade, downturn, downslide; diminution, decrease, lessening; reduction, cutback, fall-back.