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Synonyms for drippy


Grammar : Adj
Spell : drip-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdrɪp i

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Définition of drippy

Origin :
  • 1817, from drip + -y (2). Meaning "sloppily sentimental" is 1944, from the slang sense.
  • adj sentimental
Example sentences :
  • She nodded and wiped at her drippy nose with a clean handkerchief.
  • Extract from : « Vigorish » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • We stopped and picked him up, a drippy but grateful little creature.
  • Extract from : « In Africa » by John T. McCutcheon
  • They have got you now and you're all damp and drippy, and your best girl is having one hysteric after another.
  • Extract from : « At Good Old Siwash » by George Fitch
  • An Eastern tourist would venture out on the windswept and drippy veranda, of a morning after breakfast.
  • Extract from : « Europe Revised » by 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.
  • Extract from : « The Idyl of Twin Fires » by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • But Squire Sandal, though flushed and rumpled looking, had still the air of drippy mornings and hazy afternoons about him.
  • Extract from : « The Squire of Sandal-Side » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness I turned my head away.
  • Extract from : « The Melting of Molly » by Maria Thompson Daviess
  • As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness, I turned my head away.
  • Extract from : « The Melting of Molly » by Maria Thompson Daviess

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