drippy
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drip·py
(drĭp′ē)adj. drip·pi·er, drip·pi·est
1. Characterized by dripping; drizzly: a drippy, wet day.
2. Slang
a. Tiresome or annoying.
b. Mawkishly sentimental: a drippy love scene.
drip′pi·ly adv.
drip′pi·ness n.
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drippy
(ˈdrɪpɪ)adj, -pier or -piest
1. informal mawkish, insipid, or inane
2. tending to drip
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drip•py
(ˈdrɪp i)adj. -pi•er, -pi•est.
1. dripping: a drippy faucet.
2. tending to be rainy.
3. Slang. insipidly sentimental; mawkish.
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Adj. | 1. | drippy - wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" |
2. | drippy - leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet" leaky - permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases ; "a leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system" | |
3. | drippy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy, mushy emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional" |
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drippy
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drippy
adj (+er) (inf)
(US: = rainy) day → regnerisch
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