droopy, a.
(ˈdruːpɪ)
Forms: 3 drupie, 6 droupy, -ie, droopie, 6– droopy.
[Early ME. drupi, referred to droop v., but perh. repr. an ON. *drupag-, f. drupr drooping spirits, faintness.]
1. Dejected, sad, gloomy, drooping.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 88 [He] makeð drupie chere. a 1240 Lof song in Cott. Hom. 205 Sumehwile to pleiful, to drupi oðer hwiles. ? 13.. MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38. 245 (Halliw.) Sche fonde the lady alle drupy, Sore wepyng and swythe sory. a 1529 Skelton Elynour Rumming 15 Her lothy leere is..ugly of cheere, droupy and drowsie. 1587 Golding De Mornay iii. 35 Titans golden flame That shines by Day, and droopie Night. 1872 Mark Twain Innoc. Abr. ii. 19 Looking..droopy and woe-begone. |
2. droopy drawers [drawers n. pl.], an untidy, sloppy, or depressing woman (occas., such a man). slang.
| 1939 Ryerson & Clements June Mad i. 25 Elmer Tut—You haven't still got that droopy drawers?.. He looks like something whose mother was scared by a moose! 1966 ‘A. Gilbert’ Looking Glass Murder iv. 79 The neighbours round about thought what bad luck on that charming Mr. Duncan having a droopy-drawers for a wife. |
Hence droopiness, tendency to hang down.
| 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 870 Maiden, the sleepy richness of whose eyes, and the dowdy droopiness of whose bonnet, indicate serious contemplativeness. |