droop
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droop
- /ˈdɹuːp/
- [ˈdɹʊu̯p]
Sounds like drupe · Rhymes with -uːp
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.
verb droops · drooping · drooped
- To hang downward; to sag. On the brown harvest tree / Droops the red cherry.
- To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; / While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
- To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
- To allow to droop or sink. […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine / That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
- To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. […] let us forth, / I never from thy side henceforth to stray, / Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind / Laborious, till day droop […]
noun droops
- Something which is limp or sagging.
- A condition or posture of drooping. He walked with a discouraged droop.
- A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
adjective more droop · most droop
- Drooping; adroop. But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all. / And hides the green hill in an April shroud :
