What does adroop mean?
Adroop means Drooping..
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/əˈdɹuːp/ · adjective
Drooping..
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.
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.
His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy,
fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit
a crushed stone walk between hedges adroop with riotously colored fruits
a drive adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion
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Adroop means Drooping..
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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.
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