adrip

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Dripping.

   • There was a gurgling and spurting sound as of dammed water adrip.
   • […] the air [was] sweet with the sap adrip from the orchards lately pruned […]
   • Out in the trading post he could hear them playing seven-up, could smell the brandy adrip from empty horns at the players’ elbows.
2. 2

   Covered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips

   Covered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.

   • The dust in the road was laid; trees were adrip with moisture; birds sat silent in their coverts; the morning light was wan and ghastly […]
   • And she with Goban’s wine adrip, No more remembering what had been, Stared at the gods with laughing lip.
   • He was naked to the waist, his hairy breast and arms to the armpits clotted and adrip with blood, and in his hands two bloody daggers.
3. 3

   Covered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.

   • […] he [Andrew Marvell] was witty with the wittiest; was caustic, humorous; his pages adrip with classicisms;
   • the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul
   • All the big hotels here are adrip with neon, with flashing signs, nameboards that light up one letter at a time, zipping dotted arrows […]
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   1. 4

      Intoxicated with alcohol.

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