trickle
trickle Lexical Profile
trickle Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A small, slow, or irregular flow of liquid.
"A cold trickle of water ran down the rock face into the mossy pool below."
A small group or number of people or things moving, arriving, or occurring slowly and irregularly.
"Early in the morning, only a trickle of commuters passed through the train station."
• verb
To flow or fall slowly in drops or a thin, unsteady stream (of a liquid).
"Rainwater began to trickle down the windowpane as the storm subsided."
To come, go, or spread slowly or in small numbers or amounts.
"Election results started to trickle in from the rural districts late at night."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English triklen, likely a frequentative formation of an unrecorded base of imitative origin, or possibly an alteration of striklen ('to flow in a thin stream'), related to Old English strician.