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Definition of Droopy
1. Adjective. Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness).
Definition of Droopy
1. Adjective. Tending to droop; sagging; wilting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Droopy
1. drooping [adj DROOPIER, DROOPIEST] : DROOPILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Droopy
Literary usage of Droopy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems by Elliott Blaine Henderson (1904)
"droopy, droopy, am de flow'rs, Petals closed an' shrinkin' ... droopy, droopy am
de flow'rs, Petals closed an' shrinkin', ..."
2. The Feather's Practical Squab Book: Questions and Answers by William Edward Rice (1904)
"Before one would die it would lose the use of its legs and feet, get droopy,
tumble forward, and die. A. What will we do with such questions? ..."
3. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"This Jeffries boar was white, though he had bluish or blackish skin spots, a
broad back, excellent hams, short legs, and a refined head with droopy ears. ..."
4. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"droop, bend down (of the top or tip of something, as a tree or tree branch that
has broken). droopy droopy, floppy (of things). drop: ..."
5. Europe's Morning After by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1921)
"The second speaker was an inoffensive-looking member of the Catholic party—a
tall, droopy gray man with a surprised-looking gray pompadour and a long, ..."
6. Sam Jones' Own Book: A Series of Sermons Collected and Edited Under the by Sam Porter Jones (1887)
"And whenever one of them comes up looking sad and droopy, I know he has done ...
It is perfectly unnatural for one of my children to go around droopy when ..."
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