drip

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

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

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)

Synonyms

drop

leak

trickle

dribble

ooze

drizzle

dripping

flow

pour

fall in drops

distil

soak

drip mold

spill

drip mould

sweat

😓

drench

drain

run

seep

droplet

💧

escape

water

🚰

trickle down

blob

get wet

exude

seepage

sprinkle

bead

leak out

drop off

crump

crum

brock

drivel

dripstone

crud

grifter

driblet

creep

bore

bleed

🩸

glob

gink

fucker

globule

gook

frog

🐸

drib

Translations

goutter

gotear

tropfen

druipen

pingar

Tropfen

dégoutter

goutte

💧

gocciolare

sgocciolare

chorrear

gotejar

s’égoutter

druppelen

droppelen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drippen

Inherited from Old English: dryppan

Cognate with Western Frisian: drippe

Cognate with Dutch: druipen

Cognate with German: tropfen

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: dryppe

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: drypa

Inherited from Middle English: drippe

Cognate with Western Frisian: drip

Cognate with Dutch: drup

Cognate with Danish: dryp

In summary

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”).