dropping

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, drop +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: drŏpʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒpɪŋ/
• (General American) enPR: drŏpʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
• Hyphenation: drop‧ping

Verb

dropping

1. present participle and gerund of drop

Noun

dropping (plural droppings)

1. Something dropped; a droplet. [14th C.]
   • 1821, Henry Hunt, A peep into a prison, page 193:

     The information we received was, that as the roof has no gutters, the droppings of water from the roof are driven by the wind against the wall.

2. (usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung. [late 16th C.]

   Synonym: land mine

   a rabbit dropping

3. The act of something that drops or falls.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 36:

     At length, after several droppings asleep, […] Mr. Dowler made up his mind that he would throw himself on the bed […]

Derived terms

• aitch-dropping
• bird dropping spider
• crotch-dropping
• crotch dropping
• cunt dropping
• dropping in
• g-dropping
• h-dropping
• pigeon dropping
• r-dropping
• ring-dropping
• shopdropping
• turkey dropping
• yod-dropping
• yod dropping

Translations

animal excrement

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ծիրտ (hy) (cirt) Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: курешки (bg) f pl (kureški) Chinese: Mandarin: 糞 / 粪 (zh) (fèn) Dutch: keutel (nl) m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: jätös (fi), uloste (fi), lanta (fi), papana (fi) French: crotte (fr) f, fiente (fr) f (especially birds) Galician: cagalla (gl) f, bosta (gl) f German: Kot (de) m Greek: βερβελιές pl (verveliés) Ancient: σπύραθοι m pl or f pl (spúrathoi) (of goats or sheep) Gujarati: હગાર f (hagār) (of birds) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: मैँगनी (hi) f (ma͠ignī), मेंगनी f (meṅgnī), मेगनी (hi) f (megnī), मींगनी (hi) f (mīṅgnī), मिंगनी (hi) f (miṅgnī), बीट (hi) f (bīṭ) (especially birds) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: escrementi (it) m pl Japanese: 糞 (ja) (くそ, kuso), ふん (ja) (fun) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: mēsli m Lithuanian: išmatos f Maori: hamuti, hamiti, roke, tūtae, tiko, kurakura, weta Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: excrementos (pt) m pl Romanian: găinaț (ro) m Russian: помёт (ru) m (pomjót) (живо́тных), наво́з (ru) m (navóz) (manure), кака́шки (ru) f (kakáški) (colloquial) Scottish Gaelic: buachar m Sranan Tongo: kaka Swedish: spillning (sv) c Tagalog: ipot (tl) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: pislik (tr) Ukrainian: лайно (uk) n (lajno), кал m (kal) Vietnamese: phân (vi) Walloon: polene (wa) (poultry), stron (wa) m (especially dog and cat), schite (wa) f Welsh: tail (cy) m, tom (cy) f, dom (cy) m or f, baw m, cagl m, ceglyn m

See also

• spoor

Dutch

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from dropping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɔ.pɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: drop‧ping

Noun

dropping m (plural droppings or droppingen, diminutive droppinkje n)

1. airdrop (act of dropping goods, equipment, or personnel from an aircraft)
2. game in which people are brought to an unknown location, from which they have to navigate their way back

Related terms

• droppen

Further reading

• Dropping (spel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl