drib

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A drop. obsolete
    — squandering his money in dribs to the poor
动词 v.
  1. To cut off; chop off. transitive
  2. To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin. transitive
  3. To entice step by step. transitive
    — With daily Lies ſhe dribs thee into Coſt; / That Ear-ring dropt a Stone, that Ring is loſt: / They often borrow what they never pay; / What e'er you lend her think it thrown away.
  4. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
    — He who drives their bargains dribs a part.
  5. To shoot directly at short range. transitive
  6. To shoot at a mark at short range. intransitive
  7. To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. transitive
    — Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]
    The New Arcadia
  8. To beat; thrash; drub. UK,dialectal,transitive
  9. To scold. UK,dialectal,transitive
  10. To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger. UK,dialectal,transitive

词形变化

dribs present,singular,third-person dribbing participle,present dribbed participle,past dribbed past dribs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dribber

词源

词源 1
From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).
词源 2
From a variant of drip.
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