# droop
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: drūp, IPA: /ˈdɹuːp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːp
* 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, page 20:On the brown harvest tree Droops the red cherry.
** 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
** 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.
* (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
** 1676, Thomas Hobbes, transl., Homer’s Iliads in English‎, London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289: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 […]
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: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 […].
** 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
** 2010, john g rees, Halocline‎:His head had drooped with his hair across his face.
** 2012, Howie Carr, Hard Knocks‎:She was trying to hang in, but her chin was drooping onto her chest.
* (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
** c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
** 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis‎, London: Jacob Tonson, XII, p. 17:Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign, What wonder if the kindly beams he shed Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]
** 1711, [Jonathan Swift], Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1711, →OCLC, page 284:I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]
** 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 5:I’ll animate the Soldier’s drooping Courage, With Love of Freedom, and Contempt of Life.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XIV, page 22:And I should tell him all my pain, ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late, ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]
* (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:[…] 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,
    Down in the mire he droops his head;
    Forgotten, not forgiven.
* To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 175-178:[…] 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, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 46:[…] and now when day Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]

#### Derived terms

* adroop
* droopage
* drooper

#### Translations

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### Noun

droop (plural droops)
* Something which is limp or sagging.
* A condition or posture of drooping.
    He walked with a discouraged droop.
* (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

#### Derived terms

* brewer's droop
* droop nose
* droop snoot

#### Translations
### Adjective

droop (comparative more droop, superlative most droop)
* (archaic) Drooping; adroop.
** c. 1880s, C. M. Kirtland, “Ode on Melancholy”, in Poetry of the Flowers, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., page 505:But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all. And hides the green hill in an April shroud :

### Related terms

* drooped
* drooping
* droopy

### References

* “droop”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “droop, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* Podor

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːp

### Verb

droop
* singular past indicative of druipen