drip
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
government
medicine
military
naval
navy
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: drips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dripped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fall one drop at a time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
gloss: To leak slowly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
gloss: To let fall in drops.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To have a superabundance of (something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
The duchess was dripping with jewels.
gloss: To rain lightly; to drizzle.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
examples: The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
gloss: To be wet, to be soaked.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
slang
examples: 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 […]
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!
gloss: Be impressive or attractive.
pos: verb
tags: slang
stative
examples: 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.
gloss: A drop of a liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
I need a bucket to catch the drips.
gloss: A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the light drip of the suspended oar
gloss: An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
gloss: A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
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.
gloss: That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.
Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]
The cold weather can't stop your drip.
Staying true to their purpose, all this exciting drip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.
Derived words: adrip
bedrip
driphole
dripless
drippage
dripper
dripping water hollows a stone
dripping wet
dripple
dripproof
drippy
dripstick
dripstone
driptorch
eavesdrip
nondrip
overdreep
drip loss
continental drip
drip coffee
drip-dry
drip edge
drip feed
drip-feed
drip gas
drip irrigation
drip line
drip marketing
drip painting
drip point
drip pricing
drip tip
fog drip
intravenous drip
Murphy drip
neutron drip line
old man's drip
postnasal drip
post-nasal drip
right of drip
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