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DRIBLET (7)
driblet
drop, drib, driblet - n
a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"--Kipling
synonyms
ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade
in a sentence
money doled out in driblets to the workers
rain leaked through the roof in solitary driblets here and there
etymology
also dribblet, "small piece or part, an inconsiderable part of a whole," 1590s, diminutive of drib(n.) with -let.
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