Definition of Dribbly

1. Adjective. Prone to dribbling. ¹

2. Adjective. Having a viscous consistency, similar to dribble or drool. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dribbly

1. tending to dribble [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dribbly

dreys
drib
dribbed
dribber
dribbers
dribbing
dribble
dribbled
dribbler
dribblers
dribbles
dribblet
dribblets
dribblier
dribbling
dribbly (current term)
driblet
driblets
dribs
dribs and drabs
drice
drices
dricksie
dricksier
dried
dried-out
dried-up
dried alum
dried apricot
dried fruit

Literary usage of Dribbly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mark Twain's Library of Humor by Mark Twain (1906)
"Feather boas wet and dribbly; beaks smeared with yellow Indian and cold porridge; rags tied around legs. Of all the dull-eyed, sad, cynical, utterly cold ..."

2. The Red-figure Pottery by Sharon Herbert (1977)
"The profile of the youth on 78, the dribbly rendering of his hair, the drawing of the musculature in shiny yellow dilute glaze all are derived from the ..."

3. The Corner of Harley Street: Being Some Familiar Correspondence of Peter by Henry Howarth Bashford (1913)
"Liverpool Street, for example, smokes cheap cigarettes, and lives at Walthamstow—does its baggage up with string, and takes dribbly children to ..."

4. The Man of Iron by Richard Dehan (1915)
"Their leaden arms could only lift the wine to their dribbly lips. They drank—and one by one each toper collapsed and buckled as though the solid oak floor ..."

5. American Horses and Horse Breeding: A Complete History of the Horse from the by John Dimon (1895)
"... are a considerable fever, great anxiety of the continence, constant straining efforts to urinate, but little water being passed, and that quite dribbly. ..."

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