drip·py

(drĭp′ē)

adj. drip·pi·er, drip·pi·est

1. Characterized by dripping; drizzly: a drippy, wet day.

2. Slang

a. Tiresome or annoying.

b. Mawkishly sentimental: a drippy love scene.

drip′pi·ly adv.

drip′pi·ness n.

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drippy

(ˈdrɪpɪ)

adj, -pier or -piest

1. informal mawkish, insipid, or inane

2. tending to drip

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drip•py

(ˈdrɪp i)

adj. -pi•er, -pi•est.

1. dripping: a drippy faucet.

2. tending to be rainy.

3. Slang. insipidly sentimental; mawkish.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	drippy - wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" drizzly wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
	2.	drippy - leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet" leaky - permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases ; "a leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system"
	3.	drippy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy, mushy emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"

drippy

adjective

Slang. Affectedly or extravagantly emotional:

bathetic, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, romantic, sentimental, slushy, sobby, soft, soppy.

Informal: gooey, mushy, schmaltzy, sloppy, soupy.

Slang: sappy, tear-jerking.

Translations

drippy

[ˈdrɪpɪ] ADJ [person, idea, book] → ñoño

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

drippy

[ˈdrɪpi] adj (= stupid) [person] → gnangnan ; [idea, music] → cucul

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

drippy

adj (+er) (inf)

person → doof (inf); singer, film, novel → schmalzig

(US: = rainy) day → regnerisch

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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