Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A negligible amount.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dribble; drivel.
- noun A drop; a driblet, or small quantity.
- To cut off; chop off. Dekker. Specifically
- To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
- To entice step by step.
- In archery, to shoot directly at short range.
- In archery, to shoot at a mark at short range.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb (Archery), obsolete To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
- transitive verb To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.
- transitive verb To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
- transitive verb To lead along step by step; to entice.
- noun obsolete A drop.
- noun a small portion or small amount of anything; -- used mostly in the phrase
dribs and drabs .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
drop . - verb transitive To
cut off ;chop off. - verb transitive To cut off little by little;
cheat by small andreiterated tricks;purloin . - verb transitive To
entice step by step. - verb transitive, archery To
shoot directly at short range. - verb intransitive, archery To shoot at a mark at short range.
- verb transitive To
beat ;thrash ;drub . - verb transitive To
scold . - verb transitive To
strike another player's marble when playing from thetrigger .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In this brief list, we can see an assortment of them, from straight carryovers (leader, ski-pass), to literal translations (figli dei fiori, grattacieli), to partial translations where an Italian suffix is tacked on to an English stem (such as drib-blaggio or zoomare).
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Coulter displays her special genius again with a well leaked drib from her new liberal bash book Guilty about Michelle Obama.
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Aifinkso him is still lurning tu drib teh hamsur bawls.
Sure, ai have a - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Back with us in just a little bit as these details start to drib in and drab out.
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A little drib of news about the forthcoming Haunted Mansion movie:
Boing Boing: February 2, 2003 - February 8, 2003 Archives 2003
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BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Your drib and drab correspondent here.
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O'BRIEN: And we are getting a drib and drab of information in advance of all of this.
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When I stay dere wid Miss Leggett, I hadder pick up little chip 'bout de yard when I fust come home from school en den I hadder go 'way up in de big field en drib de turkeys up.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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But as near as we can figure, it 's too much of a drib-drab proposition for that.
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For my idle hours there was the 'Complete Mathematician,' showing how to figger the most difficult problems easily, how to measure corn in the drib, water in the well, figger interest, et cetery, by which I become posted on all kinds of arithmetic.
Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903
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