adrip
/əˈdɹɪp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Covered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.
Example Sentences
- "There was a gurgling and spurting sound as of dammed water adrip."
- "[…] the air [was] sweet with the sap adrip from the orchards lately pruned […]"
- "Out in the trading post he could hear them playing seven-up, could smell the brandy adrip from empty horns at the players’ elbows."
- "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 […]"
- "And she with Goban’s wine adrip, No more remembering what had been, Stared at the gods with laughing lip."
- "He was naked to the waist, his hairy breast and arms to the armpits clotted and adrip with blood, and in his hands two bloody daggers."
Etymology
From a- + drip.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a