# drip
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɹɪp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English drypan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną (“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.
    Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
* (intransitive) To leak slowly.
    Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
* (transitive) To let fall in drops.
    After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
    My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
** c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch
    Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
* (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
    The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
    The duchess was dripping with jewels.
* (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
    The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
* (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
* (UK, 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!
* (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
** 2020, “Drip Like Me”, performed by Kenndog:I'm sorry for drippin', but drip is what I do. And one of these days, I'm gon' get dressed and drip all over you.

##### Derived terms

* adrip
* bedrip
* driphole
* dripless
* drippage
* dripper
* dripping water hollows a stone
* dripping wet
* dripple
* dripproof
* drippy
* dripstick
* dripstone
* driptorch
* eavesdrip
* nondrip
* overdreep

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).
(style, swagger): Compare the verb sense "to have a superabundance of valuable things".

#### Noun

drip (countable and uncountable, 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.
** 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXVI:the light drip of the suspended oar
* (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, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
    He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
** 1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman):Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.
* (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.
* (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
    His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.
** 2019, Diego Pedraza, "Dragon Fashion", Deadline (Middle College High School, Stockton, CA), Volume 5, Issue 5, page 4:
    Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]
** 2020 December, “Inside The Winter Chic”, in Brown Sugar Box, page 3:The cold weather can't stop your drip.
** 2021 June, “Handpicked Section”, in Syzygy Magazine, page 16:Staying true to their purpose, all this exciting drip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:drip.

##### Derived terms

* continental drip
* drip coffee
* drip-dry
* drip edge
* drip-feed
* drip feed
* drip gas
* drip irrigation
* drip line
* drip marketing
* drip painting
* drip pricing
* drip tip
* intravenous drip
* Murphy drip
* neutron drip line
* old man's drip
* postnasal drip
* post-nasal drip
* right of drip

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Acronym.

#### Noun

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

##### Translations
## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English drip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdrip/, [ˈdrip]
* Rhymes: -ip
* Hyphenation: drip

### Noun

drip
* (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)
    Synonym: tyyli
    Alternative form: drippi

#### Declension

When written and dealt with as an unadapted borrowing:
Possessive forms of drip (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dripini
dripini
accusative
nom.
dripini
dripini
gen.
dripini
genitive
dripini
dripieni
partitive
dripiäni
dripejäni
inessive
dripissäni
dripeissäni
elative
dripistäni
dripeistäni
illative
dripiini
dripeihini
adessive
dripilläni
dripeilläni
ablative
dripiltäni
dripeiltäni
allative
dripilleni
dripeilleni
essive
dripinäni
dripeinäni
translative
dripikseni
dripeikseni
abessive
dripittäni
dripeittäni
instructive
comitative
—dripeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dripisi
dripisi
accusative
nom.
dripisi
dripisi
gen.
dripisi
genitive
dripisi
dripiesi
partitive
dripiäsi
dripejäsi
inessive
dripissäsi
dripeissäsi
elative
dripistäsi
dripeistäsi
illative
dripiisi
dripeihisi
adessive
dripilläsi
dripeilläsi
ablative
dripiltäsi
dripeiltäsi
allative
dripillesi
dripeillesi
essive
dripinäsi
dripeinäsi
translative
dripiksesi
dripeiksesi
abessive
dripittäsi
dripeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—dripeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dripimme
dripimme
accusative
nom.
dripimme
dripimme
gen.
dripimme
genitive
dripimme
dripiemme
partitive
dripiämme
dripejämme
inessive
dripissämme
dripeissämme
elative
dripistämme
dripeistämme
illative
dripiimme
dripeihimme
adessive
dripillämme
dripeillämme
ablative
dripiltämme
dripeiltämme
allative
dripillemme
dripeillemme
essive
dripinämme
dripeinämme
translative
dripiksemme
dripeiksemme
abessive
dripittämme
dripeittämme
instructive
comitative
—dripeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dripinne
dripinne
accusative
nom.
dripinne
dripinne
gen.
dripinne
genitive
dripinne
dripienne
partitive
dripiänne
dripejänne
inessive
dripissänne
dripeissänne
elative
dripistänne
dripeistänne
illative
dripiinne
dripeihinne
adessive
dripillänne
dripeillänne
ablative
dripiltänne
dripeiltänne
allative
dripillenne
dripeillenne
essive
dripinänne
dripeinänne
translative
dripiksenne
dripeiksenne
abessive
dripittänne
dripeittänne
instructive
comitative
—dripeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
dripinsä
dripinsä
accusative
nom.
dripinsä
dripinsä
gen.
dripinsä
genitive
dripinsä
dripiensä
partitive
dripiään dripiänsä
dripejään dripejänsä
inessive
dripissään dripissänsä
dripeissään dripeissänsä
elative
dripistään dripistänsä
dripeistään dripeistänsä
illative
dripiinsä
dripeihinsä
adessive
dripillään dripillänsä
dripeillään dripeillänsä
ablative
dripiltään dripiltänsä
dripeiltään dripeiltänsä
allative
dripilleen dripillensä
dripeilleen dripeillensä
essive
dripinään dripinänsä
dripeinään dripeinänsä
translative
dripikseen dripiksensä
dripeikseen dripeiksensä
abessive
dripittään dripittänsä
dripeittään dripeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—dripeineen dripeinensä :
When pronounced, the -p- is generally geminated following standard consonant gradation patterns.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English drip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drip/

### Noun

drip m
* (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English drip.

### Noun

drip c
* (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)

#### Declension
### References

* Slangopedia

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drɪp/

### Noun

drip
* Soft mutation of trip.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.