Meanings
nounsweatdrop (plural sweatdrops)
plural sweatdrops
- A drop of sweat.
What felt like a fly crawling down my cheek was a solitary sweatdrop.
1944, Arnold Gingrich, Coronet1 more example
A sweatdrop plopped to the floor. "Can't have men in our Army afraid to show their equipment, can we? No, of course not!"
1980, Daniel Curzon, The Misadventures of Tim McPicks
verbsweatdrop (third-person singular simple present sweatdrops, present participle sweatdropping, simple past and past participle sweatdropped)
present singular third person sweatdrops · participle present sweatdropping · participle past sweatdropped · past sweatdropped
- intransitiveTo show a stylized bead of sweat at the forehead, indicating embarrassment, exasperation, etc.
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Translations
Finnish hikipisara
- hikipisaradrop of sweat
German Schweißtropfen
- Schweißtropfendrop of sweat
Romanian broboană
- broboanădrop of sweat
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Chicago
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