drip
/ˈdɹɪp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.58 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Listening to the tap next door drip all night drove me mad!"
- "Does the sink drip, or have I just spilt water over the floor?"
- "After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil."
- "My broken pen dripped ink onto the table."
- "c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain."
- "Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack."
Etymology
From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English drypan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”), Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: drippen, drypan, *drupjaną, *drupô, drippe