| 释义 |
† driffle, drifle, v. Obs.
[? Allied to dribble.]
1. trans. To utter in driblets.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 14 These pidlinge and driblinge confuters..with much adoe drifle-out as many sentences in a weeke as he will poure-down in an houre.
2. intr. ‘To drink deeply’ (Halliwell).
c1645Tullie Siege Carlisle (1840) 15 The Garrison's excessive drinking, called drifling.
3. To rain fitfully or in sparse drops, as at the ‘tail’ of a shower. Sc. Hence driffling vbl. n.
1639R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 220 Some jealousies did yet remaine, as driffling after a great shower. |
