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Drippy

adjective
1.
Wet with light rain.  Synonym: drizzly.  "A wet drippy day"
2.
Leaking in drops.
3.
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



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