dewdrop

[ doo-drop, dyoo- ]
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noun
  1. a drop of dew.

Origin of dewdrop

1
1150–1200; Middle English. See dew, drop

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How to use dewdrop in a sentence

  • Why, it was a great big dewdrop, right in the middle of a purple violet, that was growing underneath a shady fern.

    Uncle Wiggily's Travels | Howard R. Garis
  • One morning a little dewdrop was resting on the petal of a wild rose that grew beside a river.

    Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips Walker
  • "This is like something, being a part of this river," said the dewdrop as it mingled its tiny drop with the running river.

    Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips Walker
  • On went the river to a larger river, and by and by it came to the bay and the dewdrop went rolling into it with the other water.

    Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips Walker
  • I must blow here and make the waves high, and you will never find your little dewdrop.

    Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips Walker

British Dictionary definitions for dewdrop

dewdrop

/ (ˈdjuːˌdrɒp) /


noun
  1. a drop of dew

  2. British euphemistic a drop of mucus on the end of one's nose

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