drib

American  

[drib] / drɪb /

noun

1. a small or minute quantity; bit.

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Etymology

Origin of drib

First recorded in 1720–30; back formation from driblet

Example Sentences

Instead of help in drib lets, Britain asked for and got the largest loan permissible under the fund's rules.

From Time Magazine Archive

In sweatshirts, football jerseys and dungarees, members of the cast drib ble a basketball, wrestle, somersault and shadowbox.

From Time Magazine Archive

“An’ Ah ain’t gwine t’ drib yo’ back to de hotel in de face ob dishyer shower, an’ git all yo’ fin’ry wet.

From Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Emerson, Alice B.

This little drib of railroad stock is all that my girls have left out of what their father willed them.

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis

Drib, drib, v.t. to cut off in small portions: to filch or steal: to lead on by degrees.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various