drippingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈdrɪp.ɪŋ/us/ˈdrɪp.ɪŋ/US usually drippingsthe fat that has come out of meat during cooking:
beef dripping
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Fats & oils in food & cooking
- argan oil
- bergamot
- butter
- cocoa butter
- corn oil
- fat
- ghee
- lard
- margarine
- monounsaturated
- oil
- Olestra
- olive oil
- palm oil
- safflower
- shea butter
- trans fat
- unsaturated
- vegetable oil
- virgin
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drippingadjective [ after verb ]
uk/ˈdrɪp.ɪŋ/us/ˈdrɪp.ɪŋ/very wet:
Jim had just been on a run and was dripping with sweat.
UK It's raining really hard - I'm absolutely dripping (wet).
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Wet weather & wetness
- bedraggled
- clammy
- dampen
- deluge
- douse
- dreich
- drown
- look like a drowned rat idiom
- misty
- mizzle
- moist
- moisten
- rainy
- rehydration
- saturated
- soaking
- sodden
- soggy
- sun shower
- sweat
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