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sweatdrop

sweatdrop noun: a drop of sweat.

Noun

sweatdrop (plural sweatdrops)

  1. A drop of sweat.
    • What felt like a fly crawling down my cheek was a solitary sweatdrop.1944, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet
    • A sweatdrop plopped to the floor. "Can't have men in our Army afraid to show their equipment, can we? No, of course not!"1980, Daniel Curzon, The Misadventures of Tim McPicks

Verb

sweatdrop (third-person singular simple present sweatdrops, present participle sweatdropping, simple past and past participle sweatdropped)

  1. (intransitive) To show a stylized bead of sweat at the forehead, indicating embarrassment, exasperation, etc.

Forms of sweatdrop

Noun
pluralsweatdrops
Verb
third-person singular presentsweatdrops
present participlesweatdropping
past participlesweatdropped
pastsweatdropped

Origin of sweatdrop

From sweat + drop.

Questions about sweatdrop

What does sweatdrop mean?
Sweatdrop means a drop of sweat.
What part of speech is sweatdrop?
Sweatdrop can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of sweatdrop?
The plural of sweatdrop is sweatdrops.

Words near sweatdrop in the dictionary

  1. sweatbeads
  2. sweatbox
  3. sweatboxed
  4. sweatboxes
  5. sweatboxing
  6. sweatdrop
  7. sweatdropped
  8. sweatdropping
  9. sweatdrops
  10. sweated
  11. sweated blood

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