adrip
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Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /əˈdɹɪp/
Adjective
    
adrip (not comparable)
- (of a liquid) Dripping.
- 1896, Fiona Macleod, The Washer of the Ford, Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes, page 273:- There was a gurgling and spurting sound as of dammed water adrip.
 
- 1913, Mary Austin, The Lovely Lady, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Part 1, p. 23:- […] the air [was] sweet with the sap adrip from the orchards lately pruned […]
 
- 1985, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, page 153:- Out in the trading post he could hear them playing seven-up, could smell the brandy adrip from empty horns at the players’ elbows.
 
 
- (of a surface) Covered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.
- Synonym: dripping
 - 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “The Death of Halpin Frayser”, in Can Such Things Be?, New York: Cassell, page 17:- The dust in the road was laid; trees were adrip with moisture; birds sat silent in their coverts; the morning light was wan and ghastly […]
 
- 1913, William Butler Yeats, “The Grey Rock”, in Responsibilities and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 9:- And she with Goban’s wine adrip,
 No more remembering what had been,
 Stared at the gods with laughing lip.
 
- 1948, Edgar Maass, The Queen’s Physician, New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 8:- Melting snow gurgled in drainspouts and gutters, all Copenhagen was adrip.
 
 
- (figurative) Covered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.
- Synonym: dripping
 - 1890, Donald G. Mitchell, chapter 5, in English Lands, Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne, New York: Scribner, pages 190–191:- […] he [Andrew Marvell] was witty with the wittiest; was caustic, humorous; his pages adrip with classicisms;
 
- 1919, Irving Babbitt, chapter 10, in Rousseau and Romanticism, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 368:- the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul
 
- 1985, Peter Popham, chapter 5, in Tokyo: The City at the End of the World, Tokyo: Kodansha International, page 132:- All the big hotels here are adrip with neon, with flashing signs, nameboards that light up one letter at a time, zipping dotted arrows […]
 
 
- (slang, US) Intoxicated with alcohol.[1]
- Synonym: drunk
 
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