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dribblesnounpl. of dribble a very small piecenews about the remote earthquake was coming in dribbles atoms, bits, crumbs, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, nuggets, particles, patches, scraps, scruples, snippets, snips, specks, tittles aces, dabs, dashes, driblets, drops, fractions, haets(chiefly Scottish), halfpence(or halfpennies), ha'pennies, iotas, jots, kennings(chiefly Scottish), licks, minims, mites, modicums, nutshells, ounces, pinches, shreds, smatters, smidgens(also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges), spots, strains, streaks, suspicions, tastes, touches, traces, whispers, whitsbites, mouthfuls, nibbles, tidbits(also titbits)fragments, parts, portions, sectionschips, flakes, shards, shivers, slivers, splintersclippings, parings, shavingssmithereens chunks, gobs, hunks, lumps, slabsabundances, barrels, buckets, bushels, deals, heaps, loads, masses, mountains, pecks, piles, pots, profusions, quantities, rafts, scads, stacks, volumes, wads, wealths dribblesverbpresent tense third-person singular of dribbleto fall or let fall in or as if in dropswater dribbling over the lip of the fountain distills(also distils), drips, drops, trickles drizzles, sprinklesflows, pours, rolls, runs, streamscascades, gutters, riffles, ripplesbleeds, exudes, oozes, seeps, weepsdischarges gushes, spouts, spurts to flow in a broken irregular streamrainwater dribbling along the partially clogged gutter bubbles, guggles, gurgles, laps, plashes, ripples, splashes, trickles, washes eddies, purls, swirlsswashes, swishes, swooshes, whishesdrips, dropsgushes, jets, rushes, spews, spouts, spurts, squirts pours, rolls, streams runs to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouthpicnickers dribbling in eager anticipation of the hamburgers on the grill |