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drooping
English
Etymology
droop +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?u?p??/
- Rhymes: -u?p??
Verb
drooping
- present participle of droop
Noun
drooping (plural droopings)
- An instance of something drooping.
Adjective
drooping (comparative more drooping, superlative most drooping)
- That droops or droop.
- drooping flowers
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droop
English
Etymology
From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?pan?, *drup?n? (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewb- (“to drip, drop”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dr?p, IPA(key): /?d?u?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
- Homophone: drupe
Verb
droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl” in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, p. 20,[1]
- On the brown harvest tree
- Droops the red cherry.
- a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
- 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl” in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, p. 20,[1]
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
- While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
- 1676, Thomas Hobbes (translator), Homer’s Iliads in English, London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289,[3]
- The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all
- The Vines supported and from drooping staid
- With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 1,[4]
- But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, London: Jacob Tonson, XII, p. 17,[5]
- Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign,
- What wonder if the kindly beams he shed
- Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, “The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions” in Miscellanies, London: John Morphew, p. 284,[6]
- I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]
- 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 2, p. 5,[7]
- I’ll animate the Soldier’s drooping Courage,
- With Love of Freedom, and Contempt of Life.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 1,[4]
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act II, Scene 5,[8]
- […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine
- That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
- 1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62,[9]
- Down in the mire he droops his head;
- Forgotten, not forgiven.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act II, Scene 5,[8]
- To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11, lines 175-178,[10]
- […] let us forth,
- I never from thy side henceforth to stray,
- Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind
- Laborious, till day droop […]
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess” in The Princess; a Medley, London: Edward Moxon, p. 46,[11]
- […] and now when day
- Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those
- Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11, lines 175-178,[10]
Derived terms
- droopage
Translations
Noun
droop (plural droops)
- Something which is limp or sagging.
- A condition or posture of drooping.
- (aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
Coordinate terms
(part of aeroplane wing):
- slat
Translations
Derived terms
- brewer's droop
- droop nose
- droop snoot
Related terms
- drooped
- drooping
- droopy
References
- droop at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Podor
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -o?p
Verb
droop
- singular past indicative of druipen
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