Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of drop
plural droppings
- Something dropped; a droplet.First known use 14th C.
The information we received was, that as the roof has no gutters, the droppings of water from the roof are driven by the wind against the wall.
1821, Henry Hunt, A peep into a prison, page 193 - The act of something that drops or falls.
At length, after several droppings asleep, […] Mr. Dowler made up his mind that he would throw himself on the bed […]
1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 36
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecoming down freely under the influence of gravity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
By surface analysis, drop + -ing.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek σπύραθοι
- σπύραθοι (spúrathoi)animal excrement
Bulgarian курешки
- курешки (kureški)animal excrement
Chinese Mandarin 糞 /粪
- 糞 /粪 (fèn)animal excrement
Dutch keutel
- keutelanimal excrement
Finnish jätös, uloste
- jätösanimal excrement
- ulosteanimal excrement
- lantaanimal excrement
- papanaanimal excrement
French crotte, fiente
- crotteanimal excrement
- fienteanimal excrement
German Kot
- Kotanimal excrement
Greek βερβελιές
- βερβελιές (verveliés)animal excrement
Hindi मैँगनी, मेंगनी
- मैँगनी (ma͠ignī)animal excrement
- मेंगनी (meṅgnī)animal excrement
- मेगनी (megnī)animal excrement
- मींगनी (mīṅgnī)animal excrement
- मिंगनी (miṅgnī)animal excrement
- बीट (bīṭ)animal excrement
Italian escrementi
- escrementianimal excrement
Japanese 糞, ふん
- 糞 (kuso)animal excrement
- ふん (fun)animal excrement
Latvian mēsli
- mēslianimal excrement
Lithuanian išmatos
- išmatosanimal excrement
Māori hamuti, hamiti
- hamutianimal excrement
- hamitianimal excrement
- rokeanimal excrement
- tūtaeanimal excrement
- tikoanimal excrement
- kurakuraanimal excrement
- wetaanimal excrement
Portuguese excrementos
- excrementosanimal excrement
Romanian găinaț
- găinațanimal excrement
Russian помёт, наво́з
- помёт (pomjót)animal excrement
- наво́з (navóz)animal excrement
- кака́шки (kakáški)animal excrement
Scottish Gaelic buachar
- buacharanimal excrement
Swedish spillning
- spillninganimal excrement
Tagalog ipot
- ipotanimal excrement
Turkish pislik
- pislikanimal excrement
Ukrainian лайно, кал
- лайно (lajno)animal excrement
- кал (kal)animal excrement
Vietnamese phân
- phânanimal excrement
Welsh tail, tom
- tailanimal excrement
- tomanimal excrement
- domanimal excrement
- bawanimal excrement
- caglanimal excrement
- ceglynanimal excrement
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dropping
All rhymes →Cite this entry
dropping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dropping
“dropping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dropping. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dropping,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dropping.
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