adroop

English

Etymology

a- +‎ droop

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈdɹuːp/

Adjective

adroop (not comparable)

Drooping.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 549:
  Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
- 1968, Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 51,
  His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy,
- 2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187,
  For a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary.
Covered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it.
- 1891, Elizabeth Akers, “In the Fields” in The High-Top Sweeting and Other Poems, New York: Scribner, p. 57,
  fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit
- 1945, Gardner Fox, “Man Nth” in Planet Stories,
  a crushed stone walk between hedges adroop with riotously colored fruits
- 1994, William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own, New York: Scribner, 1995, p. 244,
  a drive adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion

单词	adroop
释义	adroop English Etymology a- +‎ droop Pronunciation IPA^(key): /əˈdɹuːp/ Adjective adroop (not comparable) Drooping. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 549: Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out. 1968, Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 51, His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy, 2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187, For a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary. Covered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it. 1891, Elizabeth Akers, “In the Fields” in The High-Top Sweeting and Other Poems, New York: Scribner, p. 57, fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit 1945, Gardner Fox, “Man Nth” in Planet Stories, a crushed stone walk between hedges adroop with riotously colored fruits 1994, William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own, New York: Scribner, 1995, p. 244, a drive adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion
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