In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
DRIPPIER
DRIPPY
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”
drippy
(adjective) leaking in drops; “a drippy faucet”
drippy, drizzly
(adjective) wet with light rain; “a sad drizzly day”; “a wet drippy day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
drippier
comparative form of drippy
Source: Wiktionary
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OWNER
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