sweatdrop

English

Etymology

From sweat +‎ drop.

Noun

sweatdrop (plural sweatdrops)

1. A drop of sweat.
   • 1944, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet:

     What felt like a fly crawling down my cheek was a solitary sweatdrop.

   • 1980, Daniel Curzon, The Misadventures of Tim McPicks:

     A sweatdrop plopped to the floor. "Can't have men in our Army afraid to show their equipment, can we? No, of course not!"

Translations

drop of sweat

• Finnish: hikipisara
• German: Schweißtropfen (de) m
• Romanian: broboană (ro) f

See also

• plewd

Verb

sweatdrop (third-person singular simple present sweatdrops, present participle sweatdropping, simple past and past participle sweatdropped)

1. (intransitive, of a character in anime or manga) To show a stylized bead of sweat at the forehead, indicating embarrassment, exasperation, etc.

Anagrams

• strawpedo