drippy

[ drip-ee ]

/ ˈdrɪp i /

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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.

Words nearby drippy

drip-feed, dripless, drippage, dripping, dripping pan, drippy, dripstone, dript, drisheen, drivability, drivage

Origin of drippy

First recorded in 1810–20; drip + -y¹

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Example sentences from the Web for 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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
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
But Squire Sandal, though flushed and rumpled looking, had still the air of drippy mornings and hazy afternoons about him.
The Squire of Sandal-Side|Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

We stopped and picked him up, a drippy but grateful little creature.
In Africa|John T. McCutcheon
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

/ (ˈdrɪpɪ) /

adjective -pier or -piest

informal mawkish, insipid, or inane

tending to drip

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drippy

adjective, drip·pi·er, drip·pi·est.

Words related to drippy

Words nearby drippy

Origin of drippy

Example sentences from the Web for drippy

British Dictionary definitions for drippy

adjective -pier or -piest