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名詞

dropple (plural dropples)

1. (rare) A drop (of rain, dew, etc).
   • 1996 [????], John Clare, John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837: Volume V, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 134:

     ... dropple of dew / The white on her neck & the dun on her breast / The wood piegon loiters right full in thy view / On the maple that hangs oer the path with a nest / A few sticks accross & the eggs shining through / Just under the maple  […]

   • 2002, Graeme Feltham, 100 Naked Beers:

     […] swings his arms around, dropples of water spatting everywhere.

参照

• Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “DROPPLE”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.