The word "dripping" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is wet with drops of liquid, or to refer to a process of liquid falling slowly in drops. Example sentence: She wiped up the dripping honey from the kitchen counter.
She gestured to a flower-seller with long, braided hair and the traditional huipil (embroidered blouse) and voluminous skirts of the Juchiteca – but the hands wrapping dripping stems of tuberoses and hibiscus were enormous and hairy, and there was a prominent Adam's apple poking out above the neckline of the blouse.
Then he swung his arms outwards and there was the keel, dripping wet, its gentle curves feminine and sweetly turned".
The mother-and-daughter duo tottered back onto the cobbles like a pair of evil twins, with sarcasm and surliness dripping from every one of their pretty little pores.
I had expected desert and scrub, but instead hibiscus and bougainvillea billowed across rooftops, and orange trees dripping fruit lined the busy roads.
Related: Paul Thomas Anderson: 'Inherent Vice is like a sweet, dripping aching for the past' And very little for Paul Thomas Anderson's outstanding Inherent Vice: and nothing in way of best picture or best director.
The mid-year fiscal and economic outlook (Myefo) in December 2013 was a document dripping with sadness on the economic front, and the budget continues in that vein.
In the UK bread and dripping got many families through the great depression, now it's a served in trendy cafes, smeared on sourdough toast, added to pizza or used to crisp up triple-cooked-chips.
The ethos will be just as much about refuelling and relaxing as it is about dripping with sweat on a bike or practising stroke technique in the pool.
It's also a pitch-perfect riff on what Lindsay-Abaire does in Good People: writes lines dripping with sarcasm for those who made it, modulated with the speaker's heartrending realisation that they never will.
In theory, then, one tiny lozenge of filo and ground nuts, dripping with tangy syrup, should be quite enough for anyone, perhaps two if they're particularly greedy – yet this week I discovered I'm quite able to put away half a tin of the stuff without coming up for air.
Both players looked exhausted before two sets were up, dripping with sweat on the hottest day of the year when temperatures passed 90 degrees.
