dribblen.

Etymology: < dribble v.

a. A small trickling and barely continuous stream; a small quantity or drop of liquid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small

dropc1290

drewc1430

gutta1562

trickle1580

dribblea1682

sye1781

dreg1821

driblet1861

a1682 F. Sempill Banishm. Poverty in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1706) i. 14 I..stour'd to Leith To try my Credit at the Wine, But foul a dribble fyl'd my Teeth.

1786 R. Burns To Mouse vi, in Poems 140 The Winter's sleety dribble.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xii. 241 Teeth black with chewing, and always a little brown dribble from the left corner of his mouth.

1885 Manch. Examiner 6 June 5/4 This stream is a mere languid dribble from the side of the mountain.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1832 Westm. Rev. 17 403 (note) As often as her apron~string breaks, the stones fall in such a direction as to form a dribble.

a1871 R. Chambers Wheesht! These people..attempt to work off ‘a great secret’ upon me, in their quiet way, dribble by dribble.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xii. 294 The little dribble of Commerce..never quite ceases.

2. Association Football. An act of ‘dribbling’: see dribble v. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

footer1781

place-kick1845

place-kicking1845

punt1845

miskick1868

footwork1871

goal-kicking1871

shinning1873

punt kick1876

tackle1876

heading1887

dribble1889

throw-in1896

breakaway1906

right-footer1906

set piece1938

long ball1954

scissors kick1955

1889 Pauline 8 34 When play was again resumed, the Modern forwards..did a good dribble into the Classical twenty-five.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 13 Mar. 5/3 He..collided with an opponent, who had led a dribble down the field.

3. local. A field drain made of broken stones between which the water trickles. Cf. rubble n.

ΚΠ

1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 325 Stone drains are various; the most common here [i.e. in Wiltshire] are wall, and dribble or rubble.

1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 234 The dribble is made with stones, broken about the size..used for roads, the drain about eight inches wide filled a foot high with the stones.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

dribblev.

/ˈdrɪb(ə)l/

Etymology: frequentative of drib v.; in certain uses associated with or influenced by drivel v.

1. transitive. To let (anything) flow or fall in drops or a trickling stream; to give forth or emit in driblets. literal and figurative. With out, forth, away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > emit in drops or trickle

shedc1175

berainc1420

drizzle1543

dribble1589

trickle1602

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Theses Martinianæ 31 I thinke it well if I can drible out a Pistle in octauo nowe and then.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. lii. 238 Dribling Almes by Arte.

1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 20 Let the Cook..follow..with a Ladle-full [of soup], and dribble it all the Way up Stairs.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 405 Elizabeth dribbled out her secret aid to the Prince of Orange.

2. absol. or intransitive. To allow saliva to flow down over the chin; to drool. Hence also figurative, = drivel v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)]

drivelOE

slaverc1325

slobberc1400

drib1523

slabber1648

dribble1673

drool1810

slubberc1820

slob1860

slaum1911

1673 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (ed. 2) vi. 61 Snoaring, sweating, gaping, or dribling.

1732 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 167 He..had no Motion to vomit, but dribbled much.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood i. 2 The Lascar laughs and dribbles at the mouth.

1897 N.E.D. at Dribble Mod. Infants generally dribble when they are teething.

a. intransitive. To flow down in small quantities or in a small and fitful stream; to trickle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)] > be dripping > saliva, water, sleet

drivel?a1425

dribble1599

dripple1821

1599 [implied in: A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 95/1 Take sixe, or seaven sheepe dribbelinges, as fresh as the sheepe avoydeth them. (at dribbling n. 1b)].

1627 [implied in: M. Drayton Elegies in Battaile Agincourt 186 The Hower-glasse..whose dribbling sands..make mee too much to feele Your slackenesse hither. (at dribbling adj. 2)].

1669 S. Pepys Diary 1 May (1976) IX. 540 The day also being unpleasing..and now and then a little dribbling of rain.

1784 R. B. Cheston in Med. Communications 2 6 She had perceived her water dribbling from her.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xv. 287 Which receiver..allows the grain to dribble only in small quantities into the central hole in the upper mill-stone.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 22 The water which falls upon the rock then dribbles through the little cracks.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > gradually

to edge in1683

to work in1703

dribble1865

1600 [implied in: P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. xvii. 597 There passed some dribbling skirmishes [L. levia proelia] betweene the..Carthaginians, and..the Romanes. (at dribbling adj. 3)].

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. v. 113 From about the end of June, the Reichs Army kept dribbling in.

a. transitive. In Association Football, etc. To keep (the ball) moving along the ground in front of and close to one by a rapid succession of short pushes, instead of sending it as far as possible by a vigorous kick. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > play football [verb (transitive)] > actions or manoeuvres

place-kick1845

punt1845

dribble1863

head1871

tackle1884

mark1887

foot1900

boot1914

rumble1954

late-tackle1957

dummy1958

crash-tackle1960

to pick up1961

nod1965

slot1970

welly1986

1863 A. G. Guillemard in Sport. Gaz. Oct. (Football) The Eton game, when the ‘long-behind’ is dribbling the ball before his feet slowly forward.

1868 Football Annual 1 ‘Dribbling’, as the science of working the ball along the ground by means of the feet is technically termed.

1871 A. G. Guillemard in Bell's Life in London Apr. The Scottish forwards ‘gained not a little by their dribbling, which feature of the game is but seldom seen round London’.

1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/4 There is no more legitimate and scientific form of ‘football’ than the ‘drop-kick’ and that ‘dribbling’ with the feet which now forms a most important part of the Rugby game.

1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs viii. 165 To dribble it [the ball, at polo], along.

1887 Daily News 10 Jan. 3/5 The English forwards dribbled the ball close up to the Welsh line and nearly scored.

b. Billiards. To give (a ball) a slight push.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (transitive)] > play (the ball) in specific way

hazard1674

string1680

miss1746

pocket1756

hole1803

spot1844

nurse1850

draw1860

pot1860

hold1869

dribble1873

fluke1881

scratch1909

1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 253 To keep the white by the spot, and by the same stroke to dribble the red over the corner.

†5. in Archery = drib v. 4. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > practise archery [verb (transitive)] > shoot arrow in specific way

overshoota1500

drib1545

dribble1567

rove1581

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xii. f. 156^v Paris dribbling out his shaftes among the Greekes hee spyde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iii. 2 Beleeue not that the dribling dart of Loue Can pierce a compleat bosome.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 97 Prayer is an arrow;..If it be but dribbled forth of carelesse lips, it falls downe at our foot.

Draft additions June 2014

Basketball.

a. transitive. To bounce (the ball) continuously with one's hand, esp. while moving around the court.

ΚΠ

1893 Daily Jrnl. (Logansport, Indiana) 15 Apr. The ball may be dribbled along the ground with the hand.

1904 G. T. Hepbron How to play Basket Ball 74 The guard should be able to ‘dribble’ the ball down the field.

1957 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 27 Jan. (Mag.) 2/4 The offensive team dribbled the ball all over the court, waiting for a clear shot.

2011 W. J. Bennett Bk. of Man iii. 169 He would dribble the ball between his legs and around his back at dizzying speeds, and then do it again with his opposite hand.

b. intransitive. To move along the court while bouncing the ball continuously with one's hand.

ΚΠ

1898 Men 12 Feb. 419/1 ‘Dribbling’ or bouncing the ball was a play they did not discover the excellence of until this year.

1920 Bloomington (Indiana) Evening World 24 Jan. 1/7 One time he dribbled through the entire Purdue team.

1975 Sacramento Observer 19 Feb. b6 What does a professional basketball player do when he's not dribbling down court?

2003 Times 22 Feb. (Weekend section) 17 Cut to the hoop, shot-block, pass and dribble like a 7ft basketball champion.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dribble
释义	dribblen. Etymology: < dribble v. 1. a. A small trickling and barely continuous stream; a small quantity or drop of liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small dropc1290 drewc1430 gutta1562 trickle1580 dribblea1682 sye1781 dreg1821 driblet1861 a1682 F. Sempill Banishm. Poverty in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1706) i. 14 I..stour'd to Leith To try my Credit at the Wine, But foul a dribble fyl'd my Teeth. 1786 R. Burns To Mouse vi, in Poems 140 The Winter's sleety dribble. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xii. 241 Teeth black with chewing, and always a little brown dribble from the left corner of his mouth. 1885 Manch. Examiner 6 June 5/4 This stream is a mere languid dribble from the side of the mountain. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1832 Westm. Rev. 17 403 (note) As often as her apron~string breaks, the stones fall in such a direction as to form a dribble. a1871 R. Chambers Wheesht! These people..attempt to work off ‘a great secret’ upon me, in their quiet way, dribble by dribble. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xii. 294 The little dribble of Commerce..never quite ceases. 2. Association Football. An act of ‘dribbling’: see dribble v. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres footer1781 place-kick1845 place-kicking1845 punt1845 miskick1868 footwork1871 goal-kicking1871 shinning1873 punt kick1876 tackle1876 heading1887 dribble1889 throw-in1896 breakaway1906 right-footer1906 set piece1938 long ball1954 scissors kick1955 1889 Pauline 8 34 When play was again resumed, the Modern forwards..did a good dribble into the Classical twenty-five. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 13 Mar. 5/3 He..collided with an opponent, who had led a dribble down the field. 3. local. A field drain made of broken stones between which the water trickles. Cf. rubble n. ΚΠ 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 325 Stone drains are various; the most common here [i.e. in Wiltshire] are wall, and dribble or rubble. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 234 The dribble is made with stones, broken about the size..used for roads, the drain about eight inches wide filled a foot high with the stones. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019). dribblev. /ˈdrɪb(ə)l/ Etymology: frequentative of drib v.; in certain uses associated with or influenced by drivel v. 1. transitive. To let (anything) flow or fall in drops or a trickling stream; to give forth or emit in driblets. literal and figurative. With out, forth, away. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > emit in drops or trickle shedc1175 berainc1420 drizzle1543 dribble1589 trickle1602 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Theses Martinianæ 31 I thinke it well if I can drible out a Pistle in octauo nowe and then. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. lii. 238 Dribling Almes by Arte. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 20 Let the Cook..follow..with a Ladle-full [of soup], and dribble it all the Way up Stairs. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 405 Elizabeth dribbled out her secret aid to the Prince of Orange. 2. absol. or intransitive. To allow saliva to flow down over the chin; to drool. Hence also figurative, = drivel v. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] drivelOE slaverc1325 slobberc1400 drib1523 slabber1648 dribble1673 drool1810 slubberc1820 slob1860 slaum1911 1673 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (ed. 2) vi. 61 Snoaring, sweating, gaping, or dribling. 1732 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 167 He..had no Motion to vomit, but dribbled much. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood i. 2 The Lascar laughs and dribbles at the mouth. 1897 N.E.D. at Dribble Mod. Infants generally dribble when they are teething. 3. a. intransitive. To flow down in small quantities or in a small and fitful stream; to trickle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)] > be dripping > saliva, water, sleet drivel?a1425 dribble1599 dripple1821 1599 [implied in: A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 95/1 Take sixe, or seaven sheepe dribbelinges, as fresh as the sheepe avoydeth them. (at dribbling n. 1b)]. 1627 [implied in: M. Drayton Elegies in Battaile Agincourt 186 The Hower-glasse..whose dribbling sands..make mee too much to feele Your slackenesse hither. (at dribbling adj. 2)]. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 1 May (1976) IX. 540 The day also being unpleasing..and now and then a little dribbling of rain. 1784 R. B. Cheston in Med. Communications 2 6 She had perceived her water dribbling from her. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xv. 287 Which receiver..allows the grain to dribble only in small quantities into the central hole in the upper mill-stone. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 22 The water which falls upon the rock then dribbles through the little cracks. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > gradually to edge in1683 to work in1703 dribble1865 1600 [implied in: P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. xvii. 597 There passed some dribbling skirmishes [L. levia proelia] betweene the..Carthaginians, and..the Romanes. (at dribbling adj. 3)]. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. v. 113 From about the end of June, the Reichs Army kept dribbling in. 4. a. transitive. In Association Football, etc. To keep (the ball) moving along the ground in front of and close to one by a rapid succession of short pushes, instead of sending it as far as possible by a vigorous kick. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > play football [verb (transitive)] > actions or manoeuvres place-kick1845 punt1845 dribble1863 head1871 tackle1884 mark1887 foot1900 boot1914 rumble1954 late-tackle1957 dummy1958 crash-tackle1960 to pick up1961 nod1965 slot1970 welly1986 1863 A. G. Guillemard in Sport. Gaz. Oct. (Football) The Eton game, when the ‘long-behind’ is dribbling the ball before his feet slowly forward. 1868 Football Annual 1 ‘Dribbling’, as the science of working the ball along the ground by means of the feet is technically termed. 1871 A. G. Guillemard in Bell's Life in London Apr. The Scottish forwards ‘gained not a little by their dribbling, which feature of the game is but seldom seen round London’. 1880 Times 12 Nov. 4/4 There is no more legitimate and scientific form of ‘football’ than the ‘drop-kick’ and that ‘dribbling’ with the feet which now forms a most important part of the Rugby game. 1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs viii. 165 To dribble it [the ball, at polo], along. 1887 Daily News 10 Jan. 3/5 The English forwards dribbled the ball close up to the Welsh line and nearly scored. b. Billiards. To give (a ball) a slight push. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (transitive)] > play (the ball) in specific way hazard1674 string1680 miss1746 pocket1756 hole1803 spot1844 nurse1850 draw1860 pot1860 hold1869 dribble1873 fluke1881 scratch1909 1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 253 To keep the white by the spot, and by the same stroke to dribble the red over the corner. †5. in Archery = drib v. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > practise archery [verb (transitive)] > shoot arrow in specific way overshoota1500 drib1545 dribble1567 rove1581 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xii. f. 156^v Paris dribbling out his shaftes among the Greekes hee spyde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iii. 2 Beleeue not that the dribling dart of Loue Can pierce a compleat bosome. View more context for this quotation 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 97 Prayer is an arrow;..If it be but dribbled forth of carelesse lips, it falls downe at our foot. Draft additions June 2014 Basketball. a. transitive. To bounce (the ball) continuously with one's hand, esp. while moving around the court. ΚΠ 1893 Daily Jrnl. (Logansport, Indiana) 15 Apr. The ball may be dribbled along the ground with the hand. 1904 G. T. Hepbron How to play Basket Ball 74 The guard should be able to ‘dribble’ the ball down the field. 1957 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 27 Jan. (Mag.) 2/4 The offensive team dribbled the ball all over the court, waiting for a clear shot. 2011 W. J. Bennett Bk. of Man iii. 169 He would dribble the ball between his legs and around his back at dizzying speeds, and then do it again with his opposite hand. b. intransitive. To move along the court while bouncing the ball continuously with one's hand. ΚΠ 1898 Men 12 Feb. 419/1 ‘Dribbling’ or bouncing the ball was a play they did not discover the excellence of until this year. 1920 Bloomington (Indiana) Evening World 24 Jan. 1/7 One time he dribbled through the entire Purdue team. 1975 Sacramento Observer 19 Feb. b6 What does a professional basketball player do when he's not dribbling down court? 2003 Times 22 Feb. (Weekend section) 17 Cut to the hoop, shot-block, pass and dribble like a 7ft basketball champion. 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