drippy

[ drip-ee ]

/ ˈdrɪp i /

dripping or tending to drip: a drippy faucet.

tending to be rainy, wet, or drizzly: a hot, drippy country; drippy weather.

Slang. revoltingly sentimental; mawkish: another drippy love story.

Origin of drippy

First recorded in 1810–20; drip + -y¹

The slaw is vaguely like piccalilli or relish, but has a taste and drippy texture like no other.

The Most American Pit Stop in the U.S.A. |Jane & Michael Stern |July 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Leaving 2013 nothing was more disappointing than the drippy, sad, and woefully unfunny disaster Wilson served us, Super Fun Night.

Our Pop Culture Wish List for 2014 |Kevin Fallon |December 30, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
They have got you now and you're all damp and drippy, and your best girl is having one hysteric after another.

At Good Old Siwash |George Fitch
But Squire Sandal, though flushed and rumpled looking, had still the air of drippy mornings and hazy afternoons about him.

The Squire of Sandal-Side |Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

We stopped and picked him up, a drippy but grateful little creature.

In Africa |John T. McCutcheon
An Eastern tourist would venture out on the windswept and drippy veranda, of a morning after breakfast.

Europe Revised |Irvin S. Cobb
Sometimes he goes to the brook and sits on a stone by a pool there, while I go wading and get my stummick wet and drippy and cool.

The Idyl of Twin Fires |Walter Prichard Eaton

drippy

/ (ˈdrɪpɪ) /

informal mawkish, insipid, or inane

tending to drip