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dribblenoun a very small piecenews about the remote earthquake was coming in dribbles atom, bit, crumb, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snip, snippet, speck, tittle ace, dab, dash, driblet, drop, fraction, haet(chiefly Scottish), halfpenny, ha'penny, iota, jot, kenning(chiefly Scottish), lick, minim, mite, modicum, nutshell, ounce, pinch, shred, smatter, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), spot, strain, streak, suspicion, taste, touch, trace, whisper, whitbite, mouthful, nibble, tidbit(also titbit)fragment, part, portion, sectionchip, flake, shard, shiver, sliver, splinterclipping, paring, shavingsmithereens chunk, gob, hunk, lump, slababundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealth dribbleverbto fall or let fall in or as if in dropswater dribbling over the lip of the fountain distill(also distil), drip, drop, trickle drizzle, sprinkleflow, pour, roll, run, streamcascade, gutter, riffle, ripplebleed, exude, ooze, seep, weepdischarge gush, spout, spurt to flow in a broken irregular streamrainwater dribbling along the partially clogged gutter bubble, guggle, gurgle, lap, plash, ripple, splash, trickle, wash eddy, purl, swirlswash, swish, swoosh, whishdrip, dropgush, jet, rush, spew, spout, spurt, squirt pour, roll, stream run to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouthpicnickers dribbling in eager anticipation of the hamburgers on the grill ca. 1589 |