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▪ I. ˈdribbling, vbl. n.
[f. dribble v. + -ing1.]
1. A falling in a trickling stream or succession of drops or small quantities.
1669Pepys Diary 1 May, The day being unpleasing..and now and then a little dribbling of rain. 1728Woodward Fossils (J.), Semilunar processes on the surface, owe their form to the dribbling of water. 1790J. C. Smyth in Med. Commun. II. 516 The dribbling of urine..ceased.
b. concr. That which is dribbled, or given forth in driblets; a dropping.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 95/1 Take sixe, or seaven sheepe dribbelinges, as fresh as the sheepe avoydeth them. a1666A. Brome Songs, Reformation (R.), Out of all's ill-gotten store He gives a dribbling to the poor.
2. Assoc. Football. See dribble v. 4.
▪ II. ˈdribbling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That dribbles (in various senses).
1. Giving forth in driblets.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 14 Pidlinge and driblinge confuters that sitt all day buzzing upon a blunt point.
2. Flowing out in a dropping stream, trickling.
1627Drayton Agincourt 186 The Hower-glasse..whose dribbling sands..make mee too much to feele Your slackenesse hither. 1679Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 460 Dribling raine and mists. 1877Farrar Days of Youth iii. 29 It is no dribbling rivulet..but a rejoicing river.
fig.1686Dryden Prol. Union two Companies (R.), We'll take no blundering verse, no fustian tumor, No dribbling love from this or that presumer.
3. fig. Inconsiderable; made up of petty or trifling items.
1600Holland Livy xxvi. xvii. 597 There passed some dribbling skirmishes [levia prœlia] betweene the..Carthaginians, and..the Romanes. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 45 A long suit for a dribling debt. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 321 Small temptations allure but dribling offendors. 1672E. Ravenscroft Mamamouchi, D. I stand indebted to you. Cr. A few dribbling sums, Sir.
4. That allows saliva or moisture to flow from the mouth, as a dribbling child. |