droop
/ˈdɹuːp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.51 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry."
- "Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load."
- "a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works."
- "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse."
- "The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all / The Vines supported and from drooping staid / With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]"
- "Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…]."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: droupen, drúpa, *drūpaną, *dʰrewb-
Usage
Inflected Forms
droops (present, singular)
drooping (participle, present)
drooped (participle, past)
drooped (past)
droops (plural)
more droop (comparative)
most droop (superlative)