dropsies
Meaning of dropsies
plural noun
old-fashioned or less technical term for oedema.
Middle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy’, from hudōr ‘water’.
plural noun- a tip or bribe.
McCloy's little dropsy for services rendered
1930s: slang, elaborated form of slang drop ‘a bribe’.
Information about dropsies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of dropsies is: dropsy.
- Languages in which dropsies is used:
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Hyphenation of dropsies
drop-sies
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- dropsies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of dropsies
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