drib
English
Etymology 1
From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”). More at drub.
Verb
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- (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
- (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
- (transitive) To entice step by step.
- Dryden
- With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.
- Dryden
- To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
- Dryden
- He who drives their bargain dribs a part.
- Dryden
- (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
- (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
- (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound [...] (Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 2)
- Sir Philip Sidney
- (transitive, now chiefly UK dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
- (transitive, now chiefly UK dialectal) To scold.
- (transitive, now chiefly UK dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
Etymology 2
From a variant of drip.
Noun
drib (plural dribs)
- (obsolete) A drop.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)
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