dripverb詞源 1/ˈdɹɪp/

• 1

  To fall one drop at a time.

  • Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
• 2

  To leak slowly.

  • Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
• 3

  To let fall in drops.

  • After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.
  • My broken pen dripped ink onto the table.
• 4

  To have a superabundance of (something).

  • The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
  • The duchess was dripping with jewels.
• 5

  To rain lightly; to drizzle.

  • The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
• 6

  To be wet, to be soaked.

• 7

  slanggovernmentmilitarynavalTo whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

  • The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]
  • The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!
• 8

  slangBe impressive or attractive.

  • I'm sorry for drippin', but drip is what I do. And one of these days, I'm gon' get dressed and drip all over you.

dripnoun詞源 2/ˈdɹɪp/

• 1

  A drop of a liquid.

  • I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  • I need a bucket to catch the drips.
• 2

  A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

  • the light drip of the suspended oar
• 3

  medicinesciencesAn apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

  • He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.
• 4

  derogatoryA limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

  • He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
  • Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.
• 5

  architectureThat part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

• 6

  slangStyle; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.

  • His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.
  • Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]

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