drip

Meanings

Verb

• To fall one drop at a time.
• To leak slowly.
• To let fall in drops.
• To have a superabundance of valuable things.
• To rain lightly.
• To be wet, to be soaked.
• To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.

Noun

• A drop of a liquid.
• A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
• An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
• A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
• That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
• Style; fashionable clothing.
• A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Origin

• From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjaną, from Proto-Germanic *drupô. Akin to West Frisian drippe,
• Dutch druipen, druppelen, German Low German drüppen, German tropfen, tröpfeln, Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa.
• From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip, Dutch drup, Danish dryp.
• Acronym.