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English
Etymology
From a- + droop.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adroop (not comparable)
- Drooping.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 116”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 549:Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
1968, Robert Coover, chapter 2, in The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., New York: Random House, page 51:His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy,
- 2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187,
- For a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary.
- Covered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it.
1891, Elizabeth Akers, “In the Fields”, in The High-Top Sweeting and Other Poems, New York: Scribner, page 57:fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit
1994, William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own, New York: Scribner, published 1995, page 244:a drive adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion