drippy

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adj sentimental

adjective. sentimental

adjective. sickly sweet

adjective. wet, humid

adjective. teary, overemotional

adjective. wet, wettish

1817, from drip + -y (2). Meaning "sloppily sentimental" is 1944, from the slang sense.

She nodded and wiped at her drippy nose with a clean handkerchief.

We stopped and picked him up, a drippy but grateful little creature.

They have got you now and you're all damp and drippy, and your best girl is having one hysteric after another.

An Eastern tourist would venture out on the windswept and drippy veranda, of a morning after breakfast.

Sometimes he goes to the brook and sits on a stone by a pool there, while I go wading and get my stummick wet and drippy and cool.

But Squire Sandal, though flushed and rumpled looking, had still the air of drippy mornings and hazy afternoons about him.

As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness I turned my head away.

As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness, I turned my head away.