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dripping

nounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈdɹɪpɪŋ//

Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.

noun

  1. 1

    Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.

    They were pleased because he was not above drinking a cup of tea with them, and when the dawn came and they were still waiting they offered him a slice of bread and dripping; he was not squeamish and could eat most things now with a good appetite.

  2. 2

    The sound or action of something that drips.

    Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.

  3. 3

    The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.

    When dripping, it can be eaiser to flood your atomizer. I suggest to only add the amount of E-liquid that you plan on vaping at that particular moment.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of drippresent participle and gerund of drip

adjective

  1. 1

    very wet.

    I am sure that the whole scene, with its dripping bamboo forest, every tree festooned with fern, orchid and creeper, filled him with disgust—all so different from the deserts and oases of his lost Bokhara.

Forms

plural
drippings
comparative
more dripping
superlative
most dripping
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).