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drooper

drooper

6.1
A person or thing that hangs down and looks weak, like a wilted flower
  • noun
  • /ˈdruːpər/
: caído
  • After the storm, the flowers in the garden looked like sad droopers, their heads hanging low.

Examples

  • The old man's shoulders slumped, making him appear as a drooper in the warm afternoon sun.

  • Huge Goliath droopers, snook, bait, fish, jacks.

  • Grandmama waved her naked droopers, squirmed her thinning gray-fuzzed crotch.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The heavy curtains were thick and drooper, hanging limply to the floor.

Synonyms

leaner
vsdrooper
1 5.8

A person or thing that rests against something for support

hangs down limply without relying on support
stooper
vsdrooper
9.5

A person who often walks or stands with head and shoulders bent forward

hangs down limply rather than holding a forward bend

Surface Forms

drooper singular
droopers plural

Morphology

drooper = droop (transparent) = droop + er

A straightforward agent/nominalizing formation: 'droop' + '-er' yields 'one that droops', clearly inferable from the verb.

Etymology

Drooper comes from the verb droop, which means 'to hang down' or 'to bend down', and you can remember it because it feels like the word drop, as if something is slowly falling. So a drooper is someone or something that sags or hangs down limply.