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drippy

[ drip-ee ]

adjective

, drip·pi·er, drip·pi·est.
  1. dripping drip 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.



drippy

/ ˈdrɪpɪ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    mawkish, insipid, or inane
  2. tending to drip


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Word History and Origins

Origin of drippy1

First recorded in 1810–20; drip + -y 1

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Example Sentences

Though the cave itself was truly massive, it didn’t have the same drippy, psychedelic rock formations I’d seen in Carlsbad Caverns months earlier.

Spraying results in higher-velocity, uncontrolled water droplets that could somehow get inside your TV or on other electronics, and sloshing a drippy cloth around brings the same risks.

Afternoon highs reach near 40, leaving things a bit drippy as the late-day sun tries to peek out as well.

The slaw is vaguely like piccalilli or relish, but has a taste and drippy texture like no other.

Leaving 2013 nothing was more disappointing than the drippy, sad, and woefully unfunny disaster Wilson served us, Super Fun Night.

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.

But Squire Sandal, though flushed and rumpled looking, had still the air of drippy mornings and hazy afternoons about him.

As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness I turned my head away.

As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness, I turned my head away.

They have got you now and you're all damp and drippy, and your best girl is having one hysteric after another.

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