droukit
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of droukit
from drouk
Example Sentences
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The last Halloween I was waukin My droukit sark-sleeve, as ye ken; His likeness cam up the house staukin, And the very grey breeks o’ Tam Glen!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
But, my stars, ye are as droukit as if ye had been through a’ the pools o’ the burn!
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Herbert Willis
The last Halloween I was waukin My droukit sark-sleeve, as ye ken, His likeness came up the house staukin, And the very grey breeks o' Tam Glen!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
"I'm just droukit, lasses," cried she, gayly, wringing her sleeve.
From Christie Johnstone by Charles Reade
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