Water falling one drop at a time FromMiddle English drippen druppen Old English drypan Proto-Germanic *drupjaną ( “ to fall in drops, drip ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *drupô ( “ drop ” ) . Akin toWest 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 ” ) .
drip (third-person singular simple present drips present participle dripping simple past and past participle dripped
( intransitive ) Listening to the tap next doordrip all night drove me mad!
( intransitive ) leak slowly .Does the sinkdrip , or have I just spilt water over the floor?
( transitive ) After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef shoulddrip a little vinegar in the oil.
My broken pendripped ink onto the table.
c. 1726 ,Alexander Pope (probable author),The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch Which from the thatchdrips fast a shower of rain. 1913 Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC Philander went into the next room[ …] 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 withwith ) superabundance of valuable things.The Old Hall simplydrips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
The duchess wasdripping with jewels.
( intransitive , of the weather) rain lightly.The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it'sdripping , but you're not going to get so wet.
( intransitive ) wet , to besoaked .( UK , naval slang , intransitive ) whine orcomplain consistently; togrumble .1995 Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s , page21 :The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993.[ …] dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man[ …]
2012 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 stopdripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!
( stative , slang ) 2020 I'm sorry fordrippin' , butdrip is what I do. And one of these days, I'm gon' get dressed anddrip all over you.
to fall one drop at a time
Arabic:قَطَر (ar) ( qaṭar ) Armenian:կաթել (hy) ( katʻel ) Azerbaijani:dammaq (az) Bulgarian:капя (bg) ( kapja ) Catalan:degotar (ca) ,gotejar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:滴 (zh) ( dī ) ,滴下 (zh) ( dīxià ) Cornish:devera Czech:kapat (cs) impf , kápnout pf Dalmatian: pezlur Danish:dryppe Dutch:druipen (nl) Esperanto:guti Faroese:dryppa Finnish:tiputtaa (fi) French:goutter (fr) ,goutteler (fr) ,tomber goutte à goutte Galician:pingar (gl) Georgian:please add this translation if you can German:tropfen (de) Greek:Ancient:στάζω ( stázō ) Hebrew:טפטף (he) ( tiftéf ) Hindi:रिसना (hi) ( risnā ) ,रसना (hi) ( rasnā ) ,टपकना (hi) ( ṭapaknā ) Hungarian:csöpög (hu) ,csepeg (hu) Ingrian:tilkahtaa tilkkua tilkuttaa Irish:sil Old Irish:snigid Italian:gocciolare (it) Japanese:滴る (ja) ( したたる, shitataru ) Khmer:ស្រក់ (km) ( srɑk ) Lao:please add this translation if you can Latin:stillō Malay:titis (ms) Manx:sheel Mongolian:дусах (mn) ( dusax ) Norwegian:Bokmål:dryppe (no) Polish:kapać (pl) Portuguese:pingar (pt) ,gotejar (pt) Quechua:ch'ullchuy Romanian:picura (ro) Russian:ка́пать (ru) impf ( kápatʹ ) ,ка́пнуть (ru) pf ( kápnutʹ ) Sanskrit: गलति (sa) ( galati ) Scottish Gaelic:fras Serbo-Croatian:kȁpati (sh) Spanish:gotear (es) Swedish:droppa (sv) Tausug:tū Tetum:turu Thai:please add this translation if you can Tibetan:please add this translation if you can Vietnamese:nhỏ (vi) Walloon:goter (wa)
to have a superabundance of valuable things
FromMiddle English drippe West Frisian drip ( “ drip ” ) ,Dutch drup ( “ drip ” ) ,Danish dryp ( “ drip ” ) .
( style, swagger ) : Compare the verb sense "to have a superabundance of valuable things".
Water dripping from the end of a faucet. drip (countable anduncountable plural drips
Adrop of a liquid.I put adrip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. ( medicine ) intravenously releases drugs into a patient'sbloodstream .He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on adrip .
( colloquial , derogatory ) limp ,ineffectual , oruninteresting person.He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what adrip !
1994 Richard Curtis ,Four Weddings and a Funeral 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 aredrips . I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.
( architecture ) cornice , sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has asection designed to throw offrainwater .( slang , uncountable ) Style ;swagger ;fashionable and/orexpensive clothing.Hisdrip 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 herdrip with a soft, white fluff jacket [ …] 2021 Handpicked Section ”, inSyzygy Magazine , page16 :Staying true to their purpose, all this excitingdrip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.
For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:drip . an ineffectual or uninteresting person
an apparatus that slowly releases a liquid
Acronym.
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( finance ) dividend reinvestment program ; atype offinancial investing .dividend reinvestment program
Borrowed fromEnglish drip
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( slang ) drip ( style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing ) Synonym: tyyli Alternative form: drippi When written and dealt with as an unadapted borrowing:
When pronounced, the-p- is generally geminated following standard consonant gradation patterns.
Borrowed fromEnglish drip
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( slang ) drip Borrowed fromEnglish drip
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( slang ) drip drip
Soft mutation oftrip .Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
