drip·py (dr p  )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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| Adj. | 1. | drippy - wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" 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" |
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