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


Etymology

Adjective

drippy (comparative drippier, superlative drippiest)

Dripping or tending to drip.

Rainy or wet.

Maudlin, tiresome or annoying;

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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