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单词 dreep
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dreepn.

/driːp/
Etymology: < dreep v.
dialect.
1. A wet, dripping condition; (see also quot. 1887).
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1844 W. Jamie Muse of Mearns 103 They danced till in a dreep wi' sweat.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. 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’.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person
grub1653
noddeea1680
insipid1699
rocker1762
bore1812
Dryasdust1819
insipidity1822
prose1844
bagpipe1850
vampire1862
pill1865
jeff1870
terebrant1890
poop1893
stodger1905
club bore1910
nudnik1916
stodge1922
dreary1925
dreep1927
binder1930
drip1932
douchebag1946
drear1958
drag1959
noodge1968
anorak1984
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > that which is useless > useless person or thing
cumber-worldc1374
cumber-house1541
deaf nut1613
cumber-ground1657
dead duck1844
no good1871
dead wood1877
dead wood1887
blue duck1889
dud1897
cluck1904
non-starter1911
dead loss1927
dreep1927
write-off1935
no-gooder1936
nogoodnik1936
blivet1967
roadkill1990
1927 Spectator 5 Nov. 171 What can you expect of ‘Sammy dreeps’, ‘dozened idiots’ or ‘glaikit stirks’?
1940 in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. (at cited word) 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

dreepdrepev.

/driːp/
Forms: Also dreap, dreip.
Etymology: In Scots use, a dialect form of drip v.; but the 15–16th cent. English examples appear to represent the Old English strong verb dréopan = Old Saxon driopan , Old High German triofan , Old Norse drjúpa < Old Germanic *dreup- , draup- , drup- to drop. See drip v., drop n.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. intransitive. To fall in drops, to drip.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)]
syec725
dreepa1000
dropc1000
tricklec1386
thrill1540
drill1603
dripa1670
a1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxxi[i]. 6 Dropa þe on þas eorðan up on dreopað.
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes 67 b Of Diana the transmutacion, Now bright, now pale, now clere, now dreping.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3198 Þe terys oure hir face drepyd.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxix. 4) The Rayne dreepeth doune softly.
1594 T. Lodge Wounds Ciuill War v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VII. 183 The dreeping dimness of the night.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 55 Some with spilled drink are dreeping, And some sit on a privy sleeping.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at DreapDreaping o' wet’.
a1835 Hogg Ringan & May 50 Well do I like at the gloaming still, To dreep from the lift or the lowering hill.
2. To droop; figurative to lose courage, grow faint. (See also quot. 1825 at sense 1.)
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the mind > emotion > fear > dismay > lose heart or be dismayed [verb (intransitive)]
mayc1380
bash1382
dismayc1390
darea1400
dreepc1430
discourage1524
quail1548
blank1642
despond1655
the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > be timorous [verb (intransitive)] > grow timid or lose courage
fainta1375
dreepc1430
tainta1616
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > droop or hang limply
droopa1400
dreepc1430
amortize1480
lop1578
weep1764
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 161 Alcestis flower..In stormys dreepithe.
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 170 In goode tyme ȝe dede downe drepe To take ȝowr rest.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10795 Þai drepit in dole, as þai degh shuld.
1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 47 Sers! how your tail, an' wings are dreeping!
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Dreip..4. To walk very slowly; as, ‘There she comes dreepin'.’..To do any piece of business slowly, and without any apparent interest.
1894 R. Reid Poems 240 Never herriet mavis dreept sae lane and chill.
1941 L. A. G. Strong Bay viii. 179 A shuffling, dreeping old crone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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