drip

Significat (English)

Verb

1. To fall one drop at a time.
2. To leak slowly.
3. To let fall in drops.
4. To have a superabundance of valuable things.
5. To rain lightly.
6. To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (slang) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
8. (slang) Be impressive or attractive.

Noun

1. A drop of a liquid.
2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
5. 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) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.

Noun

A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Synonyms

drop

leak

trickle

dribble

ooze

drizzle

dripping

fall in drops

flow

pour

soak

distil

spill

drip mold

drip mould

sweat

😓

seep

drench

drain

run

trickle down

exude

seepage

water

🚰

droplet

💧

leak out

blob

get wet

escape

bead

sprinkle

fucker

gink

glob

globule

gook

grifter

grumble

heck

instillation

jerk

leach

leakage

lowlife

low life

melt

menace

minim

mist

muddy

outflow

pain in the neck

penetrate

percolate

raff

rain

🌧️

raindrop

riffraff

rip

rotter

runoff

salivate

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmuck

schnook

scum

scut

shed

shit

💩

slicker

slime

slobber

slop

sniffle

snot

so and so

son of a bitch

son of a gun

spillage

spill the beans

spilt

splash

stinker

strain

stream

tear

throat

throating

thug

till

trill

turd

weep

well out

wet

wring

drop of rain

fine rain

ooze out

ratfink

scumbag

slabber

spot with rain

take in water

water spout

trickling water

fall drop-by-drop

IV

intravenous drip

smooth operator

schmoe

molly-coddle

apply in drops

stream down

hoodmold

hoodmould

mother fucker

scum bag

slimebag

water drop

drip molding

drip channel

water dropper

douchebag

drip moulding

sonofobitch

crumb bum

smacko

crum-bum

ass maggot

sona'bitch'u

bastard

ratink

bleed

🩸

bleeding

🩸

bore

brock

burst

caitiff

clutch

complain

creep

crud

crum

crump

damp

discharge

distill

drib

driblet

dripstone

drivel

drop off

dunderhead

effuse

emanation

emission

exudate

fall

filter

flow out

flux

frog

🐸

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dɹɪp/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: drippen

Inherited from anglès antic: dryppan

Cognate with frisó occidental: drippe

Cognate with neerlandès: druipen

Cognate with alemany: tropfen

Cognate with noruec bokmål: dryppe

Cognate with noruec nynorsk: drypa

Inherited from anglès mitjà: drippe

Cognate with frisó occidental: drip

Cognate with neerlandès: drup

Cognate with danès: dryp

In summary

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, 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”).