adrip

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ drip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɹɪp/

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Adjective

adrip (not comparable) (predicative)

1. (of a liquid) Dripping.
   • 1896, Fiona Macleod, The Washer of the Ford‎^[2], Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes, page 273:

     There was a gurgling and spurting sound as of dammed water adrip.

   • 1913, Mary Austin, The Lovely Lady‎^[3], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Part 1, p. 23:

     […] the air [was] sweet with the sap adrip from the orchards lately pruned […]

   • 1985, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories‎^[4], Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, page 153:

     Out in the trading post he could hear them playing seven-up, could smell the brandy adrip from empty horns at the players’ elbows.

2. (of a surface) Covered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.

   Synonym: dripping

   • 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “The Death of Halpin Frayser”, in Can Such Things Be?‎^[5], New York: Cassell, page 17:

     The dust in the road was laid; trees were adrip with moisture; birds sat silent in their coverts; the morning light was wan and ghastly […]

   • 1913, William Butler Yeats, “The Grey Rock”, in Responsibilities and Other Poems‎^[6], London: Macmillan, page 9:

     And she with Goban’s wine adrip,
     No more remembering what had been,
     Stared at the gods with laughing lip.

   • 1948, Edgar Maass, The Queen’s Physician‎^[7], New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 8:

     Melting snow gurgled in drainspouts and gutters, all Copenhagen was adrip.

3. (figurative) Covered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.

   Synonym: dripping

   • 1890, Donald G. Mitchell, chapter 5, in English Lands, Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne‎^[8], New York: Scribner, pages 190–191:

     […] he [Andrew Marvell] was witty with the wittiest; was caustic, humorous; his pages adrip with classicisms;

   • 1919, Irving Babbitt, chapter 10, in Rousseau and Romanticism‎^[9], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 368:

     the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul

   • 1985, Peter Popham, chapter 5, in Tokyo: The City at the End of the World‎^[10], Tokyo: Kodansha International, page 132:

     All the big hotels here are adrip with neon, with flashing signs, nameboards that light up one letter at a time, zipping dotted arrows […]

4. (slang, US) Intoxicated with alcohol.

   Synonym: drunk

Anagrams

• Pardi, pardi, parid, rapid