new project starting thursday! cant wait. stil gotta get my process book finished for the last project uhg so much to do.... any way my new word!!!!! drum roll please....................
DRIBBLE!!!
here is the def as requested from black board
dribble |ˈdribəl|
verb
1 [ intrans. ] (of a liquid) fall slowly in drops or a thin stream : rain dribbled down the window figurative : refugees from central Europe dribbled into Britain.
• [ trans. ] pour (a liquid) in such a way : he dribbled cream into his coffee.
• [ intrans. ] allow saliva to run from the mouth : his mouth was open and he was dribbling.
2 [ trans. ] (chiefly in soccer, field hockey, and basketball) take (the ball) forward past opponents with slight touches of the feet or the stick, or (in basketball) by continuous bouncing : he attempted to dribble the ball from the goal area | [ intrans. ] he dribbled past a swarm of defenders.
noun
1 a thin stream of liquid; a trickle : a dribble of blood.
• saliva running from the mouth.
2 figurative foolish talk or ideas; nonsense : don't believe a word of that dribble.
3 (in soccer, hockey, and basketball) an act or instance of taking the ball forward with repeated slight touches or bounces.
DERIVATIVES
dribbler |-b(ə)lər| noun
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: frequentative of obsolete drib, variant of drip . The original sense was [shoot an arrow short or wide of its target,] which was also a sense of drib. Sense 2 of the noun may have been influenced by drivel .
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