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dropsies

dropsies is the plural of dropsy.

Meaning of dropsy

Noun

dropsy (usually uncountable, plural dropsies)

  1. (archaic, usually) Edema, swelling.
    • Caliban: The dropſie drowne this foole,[…]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    Synonyms:
    water sickness

Noun

dropsies (uncountable)

  1. The action of dropping something, in certain children's games.

Origin of dropsies

From drop + -sies.

Questions about dropsies

What does dropsies mean?
Dropsies means the action of dropping something, in certain children's games.
What is dropsies the plural of?
Dropsies is the plural of dropsy.
What part of speech is dropsies?
Dropsies is a noun.

Words near dropsies in the dictionary

  1. dropsical
  2. dropsically
  3. dropside
  4. dropsides
  5. dropsied
  6. dropsies
  7. dropsite
  8. dropsites
  9. dropsonde
  10. dropsondes
  11. dropstone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dropsies (page history and authors); dropsy (page history and authors). 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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