Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Neatly; deftly; cleverly.
- Trickling.
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- adverb Pouring in
trickles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each drop was cold, blissfully cold; and on striking, each one spread over my skin with a trickly splatter.
Hot and sticky on Monday... Imogen 2009
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Each drop was cold, blissfully cold; and on striking, each one spread over my skin with a trickly splatter.
Archive 2009-06-01 Imogen 2009
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Yes, so Ceiling Cat haz hims practice wif teh bottle tops, then teh small planets, tehn teh big gas jiants itz speshully trickly to do saturn and keep all the rings in playce, tehen the stars, galaxies, uniberses.
Universe - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Even if you find yourself engaged in a trickly exchange of contrary views, why bellow and fume rather than whisper some terse threats until a more dignified and secluded moment arises?
Archive 2006-07-01 Alistair Myles 2006
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It was SCARY. lots of weird turns onto trickly little roads.
I Drove. Therefore, I Am. vuboq 2006
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Even if you find yourself engaged in a trickly exchange of contrary views, why bellow and fume rather than whisper some terse threats until a more dignified and secluded moment arises?
Wedded bliss Alistair Myles 2006
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The farmer or the peasant, for instance, frequently feels that he is the “real” producer and that the merchant is merely trickly getting a profit out of moving around among owners the real wheat or potatoes which the farmer has actually produced.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KENNETH E. BOULDING 1968
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A pot of black paint was produced and laboriously, in rather trickly capitals, I traced her name along the side: the bootle - bumtrinket.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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So on, on over the buried bushes, across the trickly, thawing streams, through a thick swamp, close with alder and birch, on up the slope into woods more largely spaced, where great oaks towered among the fir and the spruce, and tall white birches glimmered in the dusk -- all still and as yet dead.
Together Robert Herrick 1903
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'It is,' said the Elephant's Child, and before he thought what he was doing he schlooped up a schloop of mud from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo, and slapped it on his head, where it made a cool schloopy-sloshy mud-cap all trickly behind his ears.
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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