dripping

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drip·ping1 /ˈdrɪpɪŋ/ noun [uncountable]  DF British English the oily substance that comes out of meat when you cook it 〔烤肉时滴下的〕油脂 SYN fat

Examples from the Corpus

dripping• It was always the same - bread and dripping or, when the bread was very old, blackish toast and dripping.• She had just finished her breakfast of dripping and bread and a piece of cold bacon when Ben came into the room.dripping2 adjective  WETextremely wet 湿淋淋的 SYN soaking Take off that jacket – you’re dripping wet. 把那件上衣脱下来，你都湿透了。

Examples from the Corpus

dripping wet• I have been waiting two hours for breakfast, and I am dripping wet.• The video also shows McCovery, eyes tightly closed, singing hymns in church or dripping wet after her baptism last August.• Poor little Rosie stood dripping wet and shivering.• Tony came in then dripping wet and there was another punch-up.• Its dripping wets the front of her dress, its rigid head glares over her shoulder.• But the trees were tall firs, dripping wet with dank bracken underneath among the black trunks.• What a jolly afternoon we were going to have, nosing round people's dripping wet yuk.

drip·ping1 noundripping2 adjectiveChineseSyllable  

that substance meat comes oily out when Corpus of the

dripping

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drip‧ping¹ /ˈdrɪpɪŋ/ noun [uncountable]
British English the oily substance that comes out of meat when you cook it
   SYN  fat

II

dripping² adjective
extremely wet
   SYN  soaking:
    Take off that jacket – you’re dripping wet.