drippy
/ˈdrɪpi
/adjective (drippier, drippiest)
1 informal Weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental: a drippy love song...
- I lost sight of Austin when some drippy, gooey slow song started to play.
- While it might seem this could be just another drippy and hackneyed heart-of-the-West melodrama, this made-for-TV movie is actually quite engaging, mostly because of its wholesome approach.
- A drippy woman wished me good morning and asked ‘How are you?’
2Tending to drip: drippy food...
- I never get tired of drippy tomato-and-mayo sandwiches.
- Skin tests with pollen and other common causes of allergy help confirm what causes your drippy nose.
- A single order of drippy cheese ravioli weighs in at over a pound, and the fettuccine Alfredo contains enough cholesterol to stop a velociraptor's heart.
Derivatives
drippily
- In the hands of another writer, the evolution of Fleur's emotions might have been a drippily sincere story.
- It's rural without being drippily so.
- This was a very engrossing and entertaining mystery, with a good plot and excellent (if a bit drippily female) characters.
drippiness
- Then there are those purveyors of the very worst kind of early 1970's drippiness.
- The glaze has a wonderful drippiness and each is piece unique.
- A little bit of drippiness is okay, as the glue dries clear.
Rhymes
- nitrogen
- nitrogenase
- nitrogenate
- nitrogenated
- nitrogenation
- nitrogen balance
- nitrogen cycle
- nitrogen dioxide
- nitrogeneous
- nitrogen fixation
- nitrogen fixer
- nitrogen-fixing
- nitrogenic
- nitrogenisation
- nitrogenise
- nitrogenised
- nitrogenization
- nitrogenize
- nitrogenized
- nitrogen monoxide
- nitrogen mustard
- nitrogen narcosis
- nitrogenous
- nitrogen oxide
- nitrogen pentoxide