dropping

dropping

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: drŏpʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒpɪŋ/
• (General American) enPR: drŏpʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
• Hyphenation: drop‧ping

Verb

dropping

1. present participle of drop

Noun

dropping (plural droppings)

1. Something dropped; a droplet. [14th C.]
   • 1821, Henry Hunt, A peep into a prison (page 193)

     The information we received was, that as the roof has no gutters, the droppings of water from the roof are driven by the wind against the wall.

2. (usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung. [late 16th C.]

   a rabbit dropping

3. The act of something that drops or falls.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 36:

     At length, after several droppings asleep, […] Mr. Dowler made up his mind that he would throw himself on the bed […]

Derived terms

• bird dropping spider
• crotch-dropping
• crotch dropping
• cunt dropping
• dropping in
• h-dropping
• r-dropping
• ring-dropping
• yod dropping
• yod-dropping

 

Translations

animal excrement

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ծիրտ (hy) (cirt) Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: курешки (bg) f pl (kureški) Chinese: Mandarin: 糞／粪 (zh) (fèn) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: jätös (fi), uloste (fi), lanta (fi), papana (fi) French: crotte (fr) f, fiente (fr) f (especially birds) Galician: cagalla (gl) f, bosta (gl) f German: Kot (de) m Greek: βερβελιές pl (verveliés) Ancient: σπύραθοι m pl or f pl (spúrathoi) (of goats or sheep) Gujarati: હગાર f (hagār) (of birds) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: मैँगनी (hi) f (maiṅgnī), मेंगनी f (meṅgnī), मेगनी (hi) f (megnī), मींगनी (hi) f (mīṅgnī), मिंगनी (hi) f (miṅgnī), बीट (hi) f (bīṭ) (especially birds) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: escrementi (it) m pl Japanese: 糞 (ja) (くそ, kuso), ふん (fun) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: hamuti, hamiti, roke, tūtae, tiko, kurakura, weta Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: excrementos m pl Russian: помёт (ru) m (pomjót) (живо́тных), наво́з (ru) m (navóz) (manure), кака́шки (ru) f (kakáški) (colloquial) Scottish Gaelic: buachar m Swedish: spillning (sv) c Tagalog: ipot (tl) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Walloon: polene (wa) (poultry), stron (wa) m (especially dog and cat), schite (wa) f Welsh: please add this translation if you can

See also

• spoor