dropsy

Meaning of dropsy

noun

old-fashioned or less technical term for oedema.

Middle English: shortening of idropesie, earlier form of obsolete hydropsy, via Old French and Latin from Greek hudrōps ‘dropsy’, from hudōr ‘water’.

noun
  1. a tip or bribe.
    McCloy's little dropsy for services rendered

1930s: slang, elaborated form of slang drop ‘a bribe’.

Information about dropsy

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of dropsy is: dropsies.
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Hyphenation of dropsy

dropsy

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • dropsy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dropsy synonyms

Meaning edema:

edema, hydrops

Anagrams of dropsy

Dryops

Words that rhyme with dropsy

opsy, copsy, metamorphopsy, biopsy, mopsy, Sonopsy, anianthinopsy, anopsy, synopsy, xanthocyanopsy, popsy, hydropsy, macropsy, micropsy, necropsy, Topsy, achromatopsy, autopsy, dermatopsy, euchromatopsy, photopsy, thanatopsy, topsy, wopsy, polyopsy

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