dribbler
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
dribbler (plural dribblers)
- A person who dribbles (salivates excessively).
- (sports) A person who performs dribbling.
- (slang, derogatory) A stupid person.
- 2006, Clare Allan, Poppy Shakespeare, page 307:
- It weren't like I wanted to go to the meeting, I could think of plenty of stuff I'd rather than spending all evening sat in a room with the same bunch of dribblers I'd spent all fucking day with.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
Person who performs dribbling
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dribbler
- (sports, transitive, intransitive) to dribble
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of dribbler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dribbler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dribblant /dʁi.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dribblé /dʁi.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dribble /dʁibl/ |
dribbles /dʁibl/ |
dribble /dʁibl/ |
dribblons /dʁi.blɔ̃/ |
dribblez /dʁi.ble/ |
dribblent /dʁibl/ |
| imperfect | dribblais /dʁi.blɛ/ |
dribblais /dʁi.blɛ/ |
dribblait /dʁi.blɛ/ |
dribblions /dʁi.bli.jɔ̃/ |
dribbliez /dʁi.bli.je/ |
dribblaient /dʁi.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dribblai /dʁi.ble/ |
dribblas /dʁi.bla/ |
dribbla /dʁi.bla/ |
dribblâmes /dʁi.blam/ |
dribblâtes /dʁi.blat/ |
dribblèrent /dʁi.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | dribblerai /dʁi.blə.ʁe/ |
dribbleras /dʁi.blə.ʁa/ |
dribblera /dʁi.blə.ʁa/ |
dribblerons /dʁi.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
dribblerez /dʁi.blə.ʁe/ |
dribbleront /dʁi.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dribblerais /dʁi.blə.ʁɛ/ |
dribblerais /dʁi.blə.ʁɛ/ |
dribblerait /dʁi.blə.ʁɛ/ |
dribblerions /dʁi.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dribbleriez /dʁi.blə.ʁje/ |
dribbleraient /dʁi.blə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dribble /dʁibl/ |
dribbles /dʁibl/ |
dribble /dʁibl/ |
dribblions /dʁi.bli.jɔ̃/ |
dribbliez /dʁi.bli.je/ |
dribblent /dʁibl/ |
| imperfect2 | dribblasse /dʁi.blas/ |
dribblasses /dʁi.blas/ |
dribblât /dʁi.bla/ |
dribblassions /dʁi.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
dribblassiez /dʁi.bla.sje/ |
dribblassent /dʁi.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dribble /dʁibl/ |
— | dribblons /dʁi.blɔ̃/ |
dribblez /dʁi.ble/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Further reading edit
- “dribbler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.