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Drip vs Nong - What's the difference?

drip | nong | Synonyms |

Drip is a synonym of nong.


As a verb drip

is to fall one drop at a time.

As a noun drip

is a drop of a liquid.

As an acronym drip

is (finance) dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

drip

English

(wikipedia drip)

Verb

(dripp)
  • To fall one drop at a time.
  • To leak slowly.
  • To let fall in drops.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
  • * , chapter=8
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  • To have a superabundance of valuable things.
  • (of the weather) To rain lightly.
  • To be wet, to be soaked.

    • Derived terms

    * dripper

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drop of a liquid.
    • I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.
  • (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream (an intravenous drip).
    • He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip .
  • (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, boring or otherwise uninteresting person.
    • He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip !
  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
  • * Byron
    • the light drip of the suspended oar
  • (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

    • Derived terms

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    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • (finance) Dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing

    • nong

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, Australia, New Zealand) An idiot.
  • * 1983 , Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers , Penguin 2009, p. 126:
  • *:‘In there, you nong ,’ Max said, pointing out a pink-brick home with a 1950s skillion roof.
  • * 2008 , Michael Panckridge, Hat Trick! Toby Jones, Books 1-3 , 2010, unnumbered page,
    • ‘You guys are such nongs ! Why would you want to face up to Shoaib Akhtar when you could win a World Cup against the young blond Aussie star at the home of cricket?’
  • * 2010 , John Dale (editor), Best on Ground: Great Writers on the Greatest Game , unnumbered page,
    • and spend every second Saturday defiant and one-eyed among the opposition nongs at the Barkly Street end.
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