The word 'drip' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is falling slowly in very small amounts. For example, "I heard the gentle drip of rain on the roof."
Make your own rhubarb cordial – put 400-450g rhubarb, 250g sugar, the juice of half a lemon and 500ml water in a pan, bring to a boil, simmer until the rhubarb has disintegrated, then cool, strain through muslin into a jug (it will take a few hours to drip through) and refrigerate; or buy a decent commercial brand.
He continues: "Just because someone somewhere has a personal opinion that wolf-whistling and boorish behaviour is 'fun' and not criminal does not make it right – try living with the day-to-day drip, drip feeling that someone is acting in a way that causes you fear and knowing that they just don't care about the impact on you".
But good for the no More Page 3 Campaign, which has highlighted the drip, drip effect of the Sun's style of anti-woman imagery.
Villains unworthy of vilification can be found in everything from the Austin Powers comedies, where the insufficiently wicked plans of Dr Evil positively drip bathos, to Skyfall, where Javier Bardem essentially played a neglected son jealous of Bond's relationship with their surrogate mother, M. Children's films have been veering this way for a while.
The thread was a plea to understand what had gone wrong, not to point fingers or to apportion blame, but to finally fix what those who work in the area of domestic violence say are long-standing, systemic failures that drip away until something unthinkable exposes them.
You were always eager to go into work, to see the sweat drip, to hear the undeleted expletives, and know that you'd been part of something special.
The game can drip-feed players that feeling without ever letting you get to the stage of "and now I can stop".
Despite the steady drip-drip of death, the Mediterranean story has yet to resonate with a European public short on empathy: Guardian stories on migration on our website consistently attract very low numbers of readers.
What followed was more a drip-feed of inadequacy than a deluge of incompetence.
You can also reduce your exposure to another crash by drip-feeding regular monthly amounts into the stock market, rather than paying in a lump sum.
This was a movie which withheld its meanings, and distributed clues and hints around the screenplay, it allowed the audience to experience a kind of drip-feed of meaning, which became a sudden, shocking deluge in the semi-intentional event which forms its catastrophe.
