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Drizzling vs Dribbling - What's the difference?

drizzling | dribbling |

As verbs the difference between drizzling and dribbling

is that drizzling is while dribbling is .

As a noun dribbling is

an amount of liquid that is dribbled.

drizzling

English

Verb

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  • *:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.

    • dribbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of liquid that is dribbled.
  • * 1850 , The Journal of the Horticultural Society of London
    • In dry weather, when plants are drawn out of the seed bed, and planted with a common dibber, receiving daily dribblings of water, many will perish, and all are materially injured.
  • * 1866 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
    • From the mouth you early observe a dribbling of saliva of a sticky nature and mixed with air, and of a disagreeable fetor