drippy

[drip-ee]

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adjective, drip·pi·er, drip·pi·est.

dripping or tending to drip: a drippy faucet.

tending to be rainy, wet, or drizzly: a hot, drippy country; drippy weather.

Slang. revoltingly sentimental; mawkish: another drippy love story.

Origin of drippy

First recorded in 1810–20; drip + -y¹

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Related Words for drippy

bathetic, emotional, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, romantic, sappy, slushy, soppy, weepy

Examples from the Web for drippy

Contemporary Examples of drippy

The slaw is vaguely like piccalilli or relish, but has a taste and drippy texture like no other.
The Most American Pit Stop in the U.S.A.
Jane & Michael Stern
July 21, 2014
Leaving 2013 nothing was more disappointing than the drippy, sad, and woefully unfunny disaster Wilson served us, Super Fun Night.
Our Pop Culture Wish List for 2014
Kevin Fallon
December 30, 2013

Historical Examples of drippy

She nodded and wiped at her drippy nose with a clean handkerchief.
Vigorish
Gordon Randall Garrett
We stopped and picked him up, a drippy but grateful little creature.
In Africa
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.
At Good Old Siwash
George Fitch
An Eastern tourist would venture out on the windswept and drippy veranda, of a morning after breakfast.
Europe Revised
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.
The Idyl of Twin Fires
Walter Prichard Eaton

British Dictionary definitions for drippy

drippy

adjective -pier or -piest

informal mawkish, insipid, or inane

tending to drip

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Word Origin and History for drippy

adj.

1817, from drip + -y (2). Meaning "sloppily sentimental" is 1944, from the slang sense.