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dribblesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From dribble + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by dribbling; dribbly.
   • After supper — which is a lengthy, spoon-fed, dribblesome business — he likes to play Schubert or Brahms on the Steinway in the conservatory. 1992, Chris Wilson, Fou, page 177:
   • Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

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