dribblesome

adj

dribblesome

adj

Etymology From dribble + -some.

1

Characterised or marked by dribbling; dribbly

  • After supper — which is a lengthy, spoon-fed, dribblesome business — he likes to play Schubert or Brahms on the Steinway in the conservatory.1992, Chris Wilson, Fou, page 177:
  • Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

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