Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Something which is limp or sagging. · A condition or posture of drooping. · A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
Drooping; adroop.
To hang downward; to sag. · To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. · To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. · To allow to droop or sink.
Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.
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