dribblesome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by dribbling; dribbly.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivedribblesome (comparative more dribblesome, superlative most dribblesome)

comparative more dribblesome · superlative most dribblesome

  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
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    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

Origin

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APA

dribblesome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dribblesome

MLA

“dribblesome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dribblesome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dribblesome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dribblesome.

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