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English

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Water falling one drop at a time

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English drypan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

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drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

  1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
    Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!
  2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
    Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?
  3. (transitive) 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.
    • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch
      Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
  4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
    The Old Hall simply drips with masterpieces of the Flemish painters.
    The duchess was dripping with jewels.
  5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
    The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
  6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
  7. (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
    • 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s, page 21:
      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 […]
    • 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT:
      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. (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
    • 2020, “Drip Like Me”, performed by Kenndog:
      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.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

(style, swagger): Compare the verb sense "to have a superabundance of valuable things".

Noun

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Water dripping from the end of a faucet.

drip (countable and uncountable, plural drips)

  1. A drop of a liquid.
    I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  3. (medicine) An 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. (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
    He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!
    • 1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman):
      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. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
  6. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
    His drip is looking fine, especially the Supreme t-shirt.
    • 2019, Diego Pedraza, "Dragon Fashion", Deadline (Middle College High School, Stockton, CA), Volume 5, Issue 5, page 4:
      Hailey decided to show off her drip with a soft, white fluff jacket […]
    • 2020 December, “Inside The Winter Chic”, in Brown Sugar Box, page 3:
      The cold weather can't stop your drip.
    • 2021 June, “Handpicked Section”, in Syzygy Magazine, page 16:
      Staying true to their purpose, all this exciting drip will be available at the most pocket-friendly prices.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:drip.
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Etymology 3

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Acronym.

Noun

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drip

  1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
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Finnish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English drip.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdrip/, [ˈdrip]
  • Rhymes: -ip
  • Hyphenation(key): drip

Noun

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drip

  1. (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)
    Alternative form: drippi
    Synonym: tyyli

Declensions

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When written and dealt with as an unadapted borrowing:

Inflection of drip (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative drip dripit
genitive dripin dripien
partitive dripiä dripejä
illative dripiin dripeihin
singular plural
nominative drip dripit
accusative nom. drip dripit
gen. dripin
genitive dripin dripien
partitive dripiä dripejä
inessive dripissä dripeissä
elative dripistä dripeistä
illative dripiin dripeihin
adessive dripillä dripeillä
ablative dripiltä dripeiltä
allative dripille dripeille
essive dripinä dripeinä
translative dripiksi dripeiksi
abessive dripittä dripeittä
instructive — dripein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of drip (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative dripini dripini
accusative nom. dripini dripini
gen. dripini
genitive dripini dripieni
partitive dripiäni dripejäni
inessive dripissäni dripeissäni
elative dripistäni dripeistäni
illative dripiini dripeihini
adessive dripilläni dripeilläni
ablative dripiltäni dripeiltäni
allative dripilleni dripeilleni
essive dripinäni dripeinäni
translative dripikseni dripeikseni
abessive dripittäni dripeittäni
instructive — —
comitative — dripeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative dripisi dripisi
accusative nom. dripisi dripisi
gen. dripisi
genitive dripisi dripiesi
partitive dripiäsi dripejäsi
inessive dripissäsi dripeissäsi
elative dripistäsi dripeistäsi
illative dripiisi dripeihisi
adessive dripilläsi dripeilläsi
ablative dripiltäsi dripeiltäsi
allative dripillesi dripeillesi
essive dripinäsi dripeinäsi
translative dripiksesi dripeiksesi
abessive dripittäsi dripeittäsi
instructive — —
comitative — dripeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative dripimme dripimme
accusative nom. dripimme dripimme
gen. dripimme
genitive dripimme dripiemme
partitive dripiämme dripejämme
inessive dripissämme dripeissämme
elative dripistämme dripeistämme
illative dripiimme dripeihimme
adessive dripillämme dripeillämme
ablative dripiltämme dripeiltämme
allative dripillemme dripeillemme
essive dripinämme dripeinämme
translative dripiksemme dripeiksemme
abessive dripittämme dripeittämme
instructive — —
comitative — dripeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative dripinne dripinne
accusative nom. dripinne dripinne
gen. dripinne
genitive dripinne dripienne
partitive dripiänne dripejänne
inessive dripissänne dripeissänne
elative dripistänne dripeistänne
illative dripiinne dripeihinne
adessive dripillänne dripeillänne
ablative dripiltänne dripeiltänne
allative dripillenne dripeillenne
essive dripinänne dripeinänne
translative dripiksenne dripeiksenne
abessive dripittänne dripeittänne
instructive — —
comitative — dripeinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative dripinsä dripinsä
accusative nom. dripinsä dripinsä
gen. dripinsä
genitive dripinsä dripiensä
partitive dripiään
dripiänsä 		dripejään
dripejänsä
inessive dripissään
dripissänsä 		dripeissään
dripeissänsä
elative dripistään
dripistänsä 		dripeistään
dripeistänsä
illative dripiinsä dripeihinsä
adessive dripillään
dripillänsä 		dripeillään
dripeillänsä
ablative dripiltään
dripiltänsä 		dripeiltään
dripeiltänsä
allative dripilleen
dripillensä 		dripeilleen
dripeillensä
essive dripinään
dripinänsä 		dripeinään
dripeinänsä
translative dripikseen
dripiksensä 		dripeikseen
dripeiksensä
abessive dripittään
dripittänsä 		dripeittään
dripeittänsä
instructive — —
comitative — dripeineen
dripeinensä

When pronounced, the -p- is generally geminated following standard consonant gradation patterns.

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English drip.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drip m

  1. (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English drip.

Noun

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drip c

  1. (slang) drip (style, swagger, fashionable and/or expensive clothing)

Declension

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Declension of drip
nominative genitive
singular indefinite drip drips
definite drippen drippens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

References

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