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droop

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From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.

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droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)

  1. (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
    • 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl”, in A Wreath of Shamrocks‎[1], Dublin: Robert S. McGee, page 20:
      On the brown harvest tree
      Droops the red cherry.
    • 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
      Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
    • a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone
      I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
  2. (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
      While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
    • 1676, Thomas Hobbes, transl., Homer’s Iliads in English‎[2], London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289:
      The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all
      The Vines supported and from drooping staid
      With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
    • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
      Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
    • 2010, john g rees, Halocline‎[3]:
      His head had drooped with his hair across his face.
    • 2012, Howie Carr, Hard Knocks‎[4]:
      She was trying to hang in, but her chin was drooping onto her chest.
  3. (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
  4. (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
  5. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 175-178:
      […] let us forth,
      I never from thy side henceforth to stray,
      Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind
      Laborious, till day droop […]
    • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 46:
      […] and now when day
      Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those
      Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]

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Noun

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droop (plural droops)

  1. Something which is limp or sagging.
  2. A condition or posture of drooping.
    He walked with a discouraged droop.
  3. (aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.

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Adjective

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droop (comparative more droop, superlative most droop)

  1. (archaic) Drooping; adroop.
    • c. 1880s, C. M. Kirtland, “Ode on Melancholy”, in Poetry of the Flowers, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., page 505:
      But when the melancholy fit shall fall
      Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
      That fosters the droop-headed flowers all.
      And hides the green hill in an April shroud :
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Verb

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droop

  1. singular past indicative of druipen
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