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trickle

English

Etymology

Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).

For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t??k?l/
  • Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

trickle (plural trickles)

  1. A very thin river.
    The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
  2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
    The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
    • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa
      The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

Translations

Verb

trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)

  1. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
    The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  2. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
    Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
      Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  3. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.

Derived terms

  • trickle truth

Translations

Anagrams

  • tickler

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drench

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English drenchen, from Old English dren?an, from Proto-Germanic *drankijan? (compare Dutch drenken ‘to get a drink’, German tränken ‘to water, give a drink’), causative of *drinkan? (to drink). More at drink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??nt?/
  • Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

  1. A draught administered to an animal.
  2. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
    • A drench of wine has with success been us'd,
      And through a horn the gen'rous juice infus'd,
      Which, timely taken, op'd his closing jaws,
      But, if too late, the patient's death did cause.
    • 1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
      I took up the 'Christian Scientist' book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
Translations

Verb

drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)

  1. To soak, to make very wet.
    • Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
  2. To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
Related terms
  • drenched (adjective)
  • drenching (noun)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dreng, from Old English dreng (warrior, soldier), from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz, cognate to Old Norse drengr.

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

  1. (obsolete, Britain) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

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