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.]

   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

• 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