dripping
/ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/
dripping noun: solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat. Also the present participle and gerund of drip.
Noun
dripping (countable and uncountable, plural drippings)
- Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
- They were pleased because he was not above drinking a cup of tea with them, and when the dawn came and they were still waiting they offered him a slice of bread and dripping; he was not squeamish and could eat most things now with a good appetite.1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- The sound or action of something that drips.
- Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.
- The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.
- When dripping, it can be eaiser to flood your atomizer. I suggest to only add the amount of E-liquid that you plan on vaping at that particular moment.2010, Mike Sands, Make Your Own E-Liquid, page 15
Adjective
dripping (comparative more dripping, superlative most dripping)
- very wet.
- I am sure that the whole scene, with its dripping bamboo forest, every tree festooned with fern, orchid and creeper, filled him with disgust—all so different from the deserts and oases of his lost Bokhara.1946, F. M. Bailey, Mission to Tashkent
Also used as
dripping is also the present participle and gerund of drip.
dripping meaning in Punjabi and Vietnamese
dripping in Punjabi
- ਟਪਕਣਾ
dripping in Vietnamese
- fat
- ròng ròng
Examples of dripping in a sentence
- Water was dripping from the ceiling, so we figured there was a problem with the plumbing.
- I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
- The weather isn't so bad. I mean, it's dripping, but you're not going to get so wet.
Forms of dripping
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | drippings |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more dripping |
| superlative | most dripping |
Words formed from dripping
Phrases with dripping
Words that rhyme with dripping
Questions about dripping
- What does dripping mean?
- Dripping means solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
- What is dripping in Punjabi?
- Dripping in Punjabi is ਟਪਕਣਾ. See Dripping meaning in Punjabi.
- What part of speech is dripping?
- Dripping can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce dripping?
- Dripping is pronounced /ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of dripping?
- The plural of dripping is drippings.
Words near dripping in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dripping (page history and authors); dripping (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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