drip
/ˈdɹɪp/ verb, noun
Forms drips dripping dripped
- verb (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time. “Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!”
- verb (intransitive) To leak slowly. “Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?”
- verb (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.”
- verb (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something). “The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.”
- verb (impersonal, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle. “The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.”
- verb (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- verb (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- verb (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
- noun A drop of a liquid. “I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.”
- noun A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- noun (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.”
- noun (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. “He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!”
- noun (architecture) 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.
- noun (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. “His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.”
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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”).
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".
Acronym.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
- verb To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
- verb To let fall in drops.
- noun A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
Etymology [Akin to LG. drippen, Dan. dryppe, from a noun. See Drop.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “drip”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details