adrip

adrip

English

Etymology

a- +‎ drip

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɹɪp/

Adjective

adrip (not comparable)

1. (of a liquid) Dripping.
   • 1896, Fiona Macleod, The Washer of the Ford, Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes, p. 273,

     There was a gurgling and spurting sound as of dammed water adrip.

   • 1913, Mary Austin, The Lovely Lady, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Part 1, p. 23,

     […] the air [was] sweet with the sap adrip from the orchards lately pruned […]

   • 1985, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning” in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p. 153,

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

   Synonym: dripping

   • 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “The Death of Halpin Frayser” in Can Such Things Be? New York: Cassell, p. 17,

     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 […]

   • 1913, William Butler Yeats, “The Grey Rock” in Responsibilities and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, p. 9,

     And she with Goban’s wine adrip,

     No more remembering what had been,

     Stared at the gods with laughing lip.

   • 1948, Edgar Maass, The Queen’s Physician, New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 8,

     Melting snow gurgled in drainspouts and gutters, all Copenhagen was adrip.

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

   Synonym: dripping

   • 1890, Donald G. Mitchell, English Lands, Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne, New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, pp. 190-191,

     […] he [Andrew Marvell] was witty with the wittiest; was caustic, humorous; his pages adrip with classicisms;

   • 1919, Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 10, p. 368,

     the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul

   • 1985, Peter Popham, Tokyo: The City at the End of the World, Tokyo: Kodansha International, Chapter 5, p. 132,

     All the big hotels here are adrip with neon, with flashing signs, nameboards that light up one letter at a time, zipping dotted arrows […]

4. (slang, US) Intoxicated with alcohol.[1]

   Synonym: drunk

References

1. Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1986.

Anagrams

• Pardi, pardi, parid, rapid