different between drip vs bedrip

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjan? (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”),Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.

3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
   • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch

     Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.

6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (Britain, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
   • 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)

     The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]

   • 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

     The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!

Derived terms

• bedrip
• dripper
• dripple

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

Noun

drip (plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

   He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

   He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

Derived terms

• drip irrigation

Translations

Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From be- (“on, about, all over”) +? drip.

Verb

bedrip (third-person singular simple present bedrips, present participle bedripping, simple past and past participle bedripped)

1. (intransitive) To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
   • 1851, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Richard Waddington (translator.), The morning-land:

     Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd!

   • 1862, Poems from the German:

     But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! […] "

Etymology 2

From Middle English bedrip, from Old English bedr?p (“compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request”), from a compound of bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + r?p (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.

Alternative forms

• bederup (Ireland)
• bederepe, bidrepe (obsolete)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. (Britain dialectal) A band of harvesters.
2. (Britain dialectal) A crowd.

Anagrams

• prebid

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bederip, bedrep, bederp

Etymology

From Old English bedr?p, equivalent to bede (“request”) +? ripe (“reaping”)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. A day of reaping demanded from tenants by their feudal lord
2. (usually attributive) Something given as a substitute for reaping.
3. (rare) An individual obligated to perform this reaping.

Descendants

• English: bedrip
• Yola: bederup

References

• “bed-r??p(e, b??d-, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.