drippy adj 1: wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" [syn: {drippy}, {drizzly}] 2: leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet" 3: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin}, {mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}]
drippy \drippy\ adj. persistently dripping even when shut; as, a drippy faucet. [WordNet 1.5]