drip·py

[drip-ee]
adjective, drip·pi·er, drip·pi·est.
1.
dripping or tending to drip: a drippy faucet.
2.
tending to be rainy, wet, or drizzly: a hot, drippy country; drippy weather.
3.
Slang. revoltingly sentimental; mawkish: another drippy love story.

Origin:
1810–20; drip + -y1

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drippy (ˈdrɪpɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj , -pier, -piest
1.  informal mawkish, insipid, or inane
2.  tending to drip

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Drippy is always a great word to know.
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Slang Dictionary

drippy definition


  1. mod.
    weak; ineffective; undesirable. : Bob can be so drippy without even trying.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Eyes swollen and drippy to a grotesque level of disgusting hideousness.
All this water gave the previously hot and dry climate a humid and drippy
  subtropical feel.
Walk through your house and listen for running toilets and look for drippy
  faucets.
So, now he's gone past the bitterness character, and straight to the drippy
  romance.
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