Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Dribblet \Drib"blet\, Driblet \Drib"let\, n. [From Dribble.] A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. --Burke.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "driblet": ace, atom, bit, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, droplet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, globule, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, little, little bit, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, scrimption, scruple, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit
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This is a handy word! Look - I can use it in a sentence. Or two:
ReplyDeletePoets, if they are paid at all, are generallly paid in dribblets. Unfortunately, dribblets are not a generally-accepted unit of currency.