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The Collaborative International Dictionary
drippy

drippy \drippy\ adj. persistently dripping even when shut; as, a drippy faucet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drippy

1817, from drip + -y (2). Meaning "sloppily sentimental" is 1944, from the slang sense.

Wiktionary
drippy

a. 1 dripping or tending to drip. 2 tending to be rainy or wet. 3 tiresome or annoying. 4 wet-looking

WordNet
drippy
  1. adj. wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" [syn: drizzly]

  2. leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet"

  3. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]

  4. [also: drippiest, drippier]

Usage examples of "drippy".

The overhanging canopy of wet leaves sprayed both horse and rider as they passed beneath their drippy tunnel.

Around elbows, by tall boots, dodging lit cigarettes and drippy drinks held low and cool-like, Tiny Doom and Pig achieve open air without incident and then, sack in hand, set out for the Big Shakedown.

Madam Rose staggers, she is clutching her throat, her hair has fallen down, drippy red.

Above a drippy sink hung a drugstore calendar: two Technicolor spaniels in a wicker basket.

But while she was blessed with empty halls, when she reached the main office she was cursed with the drippy looks of consoling secretaries.

He was finishing off a drippy slice of pizza, heading into the Bookshop Santa Cruz.

But here she is nothing more than a drippy puddle on dry land, and to be a solid is to be a fake.

Kelvin was leading a small army of bandits on foot down the winding road through a drippy morning mist that was nearly rain.

I'm all alone and I'm stuck with this geek with a leg brace, this strange, sickly momma's boy, who can't run, who's got this drippy nose and this weird hair, who spent a summer in an iron lung, which made him as frightening to me as the Mummy.

As I shrugged, Ruby Bee and Estelle came out of the kitchen with a big, drippy banner made out of white muslin and poster paint.

Joe and Nancy Mondragon were both so bombed they could hardly stand up, let alone walk, God forbid knock off La Raspa, a foxtrot, or the Monkey, but they had decided to perform a flamenco number to a trio of unabashedly drippy accordions, chunk-a-chunk guitars, gagging fiddles, and' hysterically sobbing south-of-the-border voices, so they cleared the floor by elbowing everybody else aside, and--Nancy gritting an imaginary rose in her teeth, Joe with a fist clenched against his belly holding together an imaginary skintight gypsy jacket --they began to "dance.