Crossword clues for droopy
droopy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
droopy \droopy\ adj. bending downward due to lack of tautness; -- of lines.
Syn: drooping, sagging, slack.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dejected, sad, gloomy," early 13c., drupie, perhaps from droop, perhaps from Old Norse drupr "drooping spirits, faintness."
Wiktionary
a. Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Droopy is an animated cartoon character: an anthropomorphic dog with a droopy face, hence the name Droopy. He was created in 1943 by Tex Avery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Essentially the polar opposite of Avery's other famous MGM character, the loud and wacky Screwy Squirrel, Droopy moves slowly and lethargically, speaks in a jowly monotone voice, and—though hardly an imposing character—is shrewd enough to outwit his enemies. When finally roused to anger, often by a bad guy laughing heartily at him, Droopy is capable of beating adversaries many times his size with a comical thrashing ("You know what? That makes me mad!").
The character first appeared, nameless, in Avery's 1943 cartoon Dumb-Hounded. Though he would not be called "Droopy" onscreen until his fifth cartoon, Señor Droopy (1949), the character was officially first labeled Happy Hound, a name used in the character's appearances in Our Gang Comics. After the demise of the Droopy series in 1958, the character has been revived several times for new productions, often television shows also featuring MGM's other famous cartoon stars, Tom and Jerry.
In the cartoon Northwest Hounded Police, Droopy's last name was given as "McPoodle". In The Chump Champ, it was given as "Poodle". Nevertheless, Droopy is generally understood to be a basset hound.
Usage examples of "droopy".
The dimetrodons turned droopy eyes upon the phenomenon, but made no other move except to twitch their tails from the hot water.
When Xanadu gestured to the crystal ball and finished with a hitch of his droopy purple sash, Margo almost broke the tension with a laugh.
Thick looked sullen and sleepy, his heavy-lidded eyes even droopier than usual.
She had never seen trees like these before, all hunched and droopy, with streamers of dingy brown moss trailing off and dangling mournfully in the film-crusted swamp water.
Lovingly, she dusted the droopy leaves and parched blossoms of her ailing Aconitum napellus.
He saw what they saw: a big man with a big droopy moustache, sort of bronzey-russet.
Bother me again and I turn your didgeridoos inside out and make your droopy bits explode in slow motion.
All day the General and Chaplain Haverford were fussing about licenses, and those girls sat around and waited, and looked droopy but sort of happy - you know what I mean.
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