droughty
English
Alternative forms
- drouthy
Etymology
drought + -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɹaʊti/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈdɹʌʊɾi]
- Rhymes: -aʊti
Adjective
droughty (comparative droughtier, superlative droughtiest)
- Lacking rain.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 268:
- From habit the sheep would head for the river, but, though it was early spring, the winter had been droughty, and the river was only a string of dangerous water-holes.
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- (archaic) Dry; thirsty.
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder, book II, London: J. Tonson, page 52:
- thou muſt / With taſteleſs Water waſh thy droughty Throat.
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Translations
lacking rain
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