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▪ I. dreep, drepe, v. Obs. exc. dial.|driːp|
Also dreap, dreip.
[In Sc. use, a dial. form of drip v.; but the 15–16th c. English examples appear to represent the OE. strong vb. dréopan = OS. driopan, OHG. triofan, ON. drjúpa:—OTeut. *dreup-, draup-, drup- to drop. See drip, drop.]
1. intr. To fall in drops, to drip.
a1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxxi[i]. 6 Dropa þe on þas eorðan up on dreopað. c1430Lydg. Bochas 67 b, Of Diana the transmutacion, Now bright, now pale, now clere, now dreping. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 3198 Þe terys oure hir face drepyd. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxix. 4 The Rayne dreepeth doune softly. 1594Lodge Wounds Civ. War v. in Hazl. Dodsley VII. 183 The dreeping dimness of the night. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 55 Some with spilled drink are dreeping, And some sit on a privy sleeping. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss. s.v., ‘Dreaping o' wet’. a1835Hogg Ringan & May 50 Well do I like at the gloaming still, To dreep from the lift or the lowering hill.
2. To droop; fig. to lose courage, grow faint. (See also quot. 1825.)
c1400Destr. Troy 10795 Þai drepit in dole, as þai degh shuld. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 161 (Mätz.) Alcestis flower..In stormys dreepithe. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 170 In goode tyme ȝe dede downe drepe To take ȝowr rest. 1807R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 47 Sers! how your tail, an' wings are dreeping! 1825Jamieson Suppl., Dreip,..to walk very slowly; as, ‘There she comes dreepin'.’..To do any piece of business slowly, and without any apparent interest. 1894R. Reid Poems, Songs, & Sonnets 240 Never herriet mavis dreept sae lane and chill. 1941L. A. G. Strong Bay viii. 179 A shuffling, dreeping old crone.
▪ II. dreep, n. dial.|driːp|
[f. dreep v.]
1. A wet, dripping condition; (see also quot. 1887).
1844W. Jamie Muse of Mearns 103 They danced till in a dreep wi' sweat. 1887Jamieson Suppl., Dreep, s., drip, dripping, as from a roast, from the eaves, &c.: also, the eaves; and where drops from the eaves fall on the ground, as, ‘Ye mun bide within your ain dreep.’
2. An ineffective, spiritless, or lugubrious person; a ‘drip’.
1927Spectator 5 Nov. 171 What can you expect of ‘Sammy dreeps’, ‘dozened idiots’ or ‘glaikit stirks’? 1940in Sc. Nat. Dict. (1952) III. s.v., That wumman's jist a dreep. I canna thole her. 1942‘P. Wentworth’ Danger Point xxii. 130 ‘Will you give me your impression of the girl.’.. ‘Oh, a long, thin dreep. No guts. The sort that whines.’ 1970‘D. Shannon’ Unexpected Death (1971) vii. 99 She was, he thought, a dreep. |