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
- 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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