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Drippy

adjective

Wet with light rain. Synonym: drizzly. "A wet drippy day"

Leaking in drops.

Effusively or insincerely emotional. Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy. "Maudlin expressions of sympathy" , "Mushy effusiveness" , "A schmaltzy song" , "Sentimental soap operas" , "Slushy poetry"

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"Drippy" Quotes from Famous Books

... drowned, Hoggy, old boy," Wilkins said. "Drowned in your little old Weeping Water River. They have got you now and you're all damp and drippy, and your best girl is having one hysteric after another. Don't you think you ought to throw that cigarette away and show some respect to yourself? We've all quit playing cards and are going to bed early in ...

— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch

... about the walls little sheds had been erected, to shelter this detachment and that on its way through to Ireland. Some of these were as old as Claverhouse and his King's Life Guards in the bad days of the covenant. But, one and all, they were insufficient, out of repair, drippy, smelling of stale bad tobacco and ...

— Patsy • S. R. Crockett

... very glad the sweet chap was to feel the warm sun on his back, for he had been made quite drippy and sticky by having fallen ...

— The Story of Calico Clown • Laura Lee Hope