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drib

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɹɪb/Part of speech nounSorted bdirStarts with DEnds with B0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)

Word origin

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

Used in a sentence

  • With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.
  • He who drives their bargains dribs a part.
  • Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]
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