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drip
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)
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
- (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.
- c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
- (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (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!
- 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)
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)
- A drop of a liquid.
- I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- (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.
- (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
- (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
- (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
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driblet
English
Alternative forms
- dribblet
Noun
driblet (plural driblets)
- A small portion or part.
- A small or petty sum.
Anagrams
- birdlet
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