drip

• vi. 滴る；充満する；漏れる
• n. 水滴；滴る音；点滴；面倒な人
• 滴らせる；溢れさせる；出す

PIE*dhreuの「滴る」が語源で、語源的にはdropと同じ。

drip

drip: see drop

drip (n.)

mid-15c., from drip (v.). The slang meaning "stupid, feeble, or dull person" is first recorded 1932, perhaps from earlier American English slang sense "nonsense" (1919).

drip (v.)

c. 1300, perhaps from Middle Danish drippe, from Proto-Germanic *drup- (cognates: Dutch druipen, German triefen), from PIE root *dhreu-. Related to droop and drop. Old English had cognate drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." Related: Dripped; dripping.

1. He is on a saline drip .

彼は塩水を注入している。

2.The faucet has developed a drip .

その蛇口から水が滴り始めている。

3.Everything he said drip ped acid.

彼の言葉には字句にとげがある。

4.I hate this sort of drip .

そんなくだらない噂話は嫌いだ.

5.I had a bad attack of pneumonia and spent two days in hospital on a drip .

私は深刻な肺炎にかかり、病院で2日間液体を輸液した。