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[ drip-ee ] / ˈdrɪp i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR drippy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, drip·pi·er, drip·pi·est.dripping or tending to drip: a drippy faucet. tending to be rainy, wet, or drizzly: a hot, drippy country; drippy weather. Slang. revoltingly sentimental; mawkish: another drippy love story. Origin of drippyFirst recorded in 1810–20; drip + -y1 Words nearby drippydrippage, drip painting, drip pan, dripping, dripping pan, drippy, dripstone, dript, drisheen, drivability, drivage Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for drippyThe slaw is vaguely like piccalilli or relish, but has a taste and drippy texture like no other. The Most American Pit Stop in the U.S.A.|Jane & Michael Stern|July 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Leaving 2013 nothing was more disappointing than the drippy, sad, and woefully unfunny disaster Wilson served us, Super Fun Night. Our Pop Culture Wish List for 2014|Kevin Fallon|December 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST They have got you now and you're all damp and drippy, and your best girl is having one hysteric after another. At Good Old Siwash|George Fitch But Squire Sandal, though flushed and rumpled looking, had still the air of drippy mornings and hazy afternoons about him. The Squire of Sandal-Side|Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
We stopped and picked him up, a drippy but grateful little creature. In Africa|John T. McCutcheon An Eastern tourist would venture out on the windswept and drippy veranda, of a morning after breakfast. Europe Revised|Irvin S. Cobb Sometimes he goes to the brook and sits on a stone by a pool there, while I go wading and get my stummick wet and drippy and cool. The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
British Dictionary definitions for drippy
adjective -pier or -piestinformal mawkish, insipid, or inane tending to drip Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to drippybathetic, emotional, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, romantic, sappy, slushy, soppy, weepy |