Definitions
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- adjective Prone to
dribbling . - adjective Having a
viscous consistency, similar todribble ordrool .
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Examples
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Very posh non-dribbly teapots have sharp lips, but older examples are often chipped.
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Very posh non-dribbly teapots have sharp lips, but older examples are often chipped.
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I witnessed at first hand what must be the most devastating spell in Test history, his extraordinary seven-for-one-run spell in Perth that destroyed Australia in 1993 (the single run a dribbly bat-pad past short-leg), and it was the relentless nature of it rather than cricket ball acrobatics that did the job.
Believe the hype – Steven Finn is a raw talent to get excited about 2010
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Even though I'm bald, I keep a hairdryer on hand, and re-purpose it for removing dribbly-drops of paraffin from any hard surface.
Michael DeJong: Hanukkah: How to Celebrate (And Clean Up After) the Festival of Lights 2009
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Nor day after day of sunless skies and dribbly rain.
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So, I recited all the proper incantations, and lit a few dribbly candles while facing North, and basically did everything the instruction manual said to do.
ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009
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I was ready for the dribbly spit-up and the upchuck spit-up and the projectile spit-up and I laughed, laughed, whenever anyone commented on the spit-up with words to the effect of my, that was a big spit-up because ha ha ha they had never really seen serious spit-up, the kind that ends up down the front of your tattered nursing bra and the back of your stretched-out yoga pants, all in one go.
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Whilst you're lamenting your farty, dropsy, dribbly, hairyness just remember that Linda happens to love you.
Disability, age, illness, medicos, society and biology Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Did you know that if after eating two of those, you let your mouth get all dribbly and then touch your nose with your tongue, it'll leave a pink smear?
The Featherweight Café. Ann Althouse 2008
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I should have just shared them and finished them; they were perfect for eating out of hand, fragrant and dribbly.
Toast: Lindy 2007
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