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Definition of Drippy
1. Adjective. Wet with light rain. "A wet drippy day"
2. Adjective. Leaking in drops. "A drippy faucet"
3. Adjective. Effusively or insincerely emotional. "Slushy poetry"
Similar to: Emotional
Derivative terms: Drippiness, Mawkishness, Mawkishness, Mushiness, Sentiment, Sentimentality
Definition of Drippy
1. Adjective. dripping or tending to drip. ¹
2. Adjective. tending to be rainy or wet. ¹
3. Adjective. tiresome or annoying. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drippy
1. very wet [adj -PIER, -PIEST] : DRIPPILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drippy
Literary usage of Drippy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6by Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli by Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli (2007)
"... everything drippy: drippy umbrellas, drippy cars, drippy roads. Tiny birds
get knocked to the ground, smashing tiny ants in five drip-droppy raindrops. ..."
2. Computer Virus Survival Guide by David Stang (1991)
"That one might be Cascade, or might be a little joke program called drippy that
your office mate is trying out on you. We'll need to run a scanner to be ..."
3. Computer Virus (Icsa) by David J. Stang (1991)
"That one might be Cascade, or might be a little joke program called drippy that
your office mate is trying out on you. We'll need to run a scanner to be ..."
4. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1908)
"... drippy weather one learns to expect during the Silesian winter, we started
off for a short trip southward, along the western slopes of the Carpathians, ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"He gives them as the lines of an English wit, thus; “ Autumn, wheezy, sneezy,
freezy, Winter, slippy, drippy, nippy; Spring showery, flowery, bowery; ..."
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