drip

 
Pronunciation: /drɪp/

verb (drips, dripping, dripped)

[no object]
  • let fall or be so wet as to shed small drops of liquid: the tap won’t stop dripping his hands were dripping with blood
  • [with adverbial] (of liquid) fall in small drops: water dripped from her clothing
  • [with object] cause or allow (a liquid) to fall in small drops: the candle was dripping wax down one side
  • display a copious amount or degree of a particular quality or thing: the women were dripping with gold and diamonds [with object]: his voice dripped sarcasm

noun

  • 1a small drop of a liquid: she put the bucket on top of the dresser to catch the drips
  • the action or sound of liquid falling steadily in small drops: the drip, drip, drip of the leak in the roof
  • (also drip feed) Medicine an apparatus which passes fluid, nutrients, or drugs drop by drop into a patient’s body on a continuous basis, usually intravenously: he had been on a drip for several days
  • 2 informal a weak and ineffectual person: I hope that drip isn’t still pursuing you
  • 3 Architecture a projection on a moulding, channelled to prevent rain from running down the wall below. Compare with dripstone

Origin:

Old English dryppan, drȳpen, of Germanic origin; related to Danish dryppe, also to drop