dribblesome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dribble +‎ -some

Adjective[edit]

dribblesome (comparative more dribblesome, superlative most dribblesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by dribbling; dribbly
    • 1992, Chris Wilson, Fou, page 177:
      After supper — which is a lengthy, spoon-fed, dribblesome business — he likes to play Schubert or Brahms on the Steinway in the conservatory.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      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.