drouthy
Americanadjective
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During drouthy periods they were known to come twenty miles to quench their thirst in the Salado, which was the main watercourse of this grant.
From Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories by Adams, Andy
It was the latter part of summer, and was unusually hot and drouthy.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy
In the drouthy or too moist summer days and evenings, she never awakens our hopes or fears with shrill prophecies of rain as does her nimbler and more aspiring cousin, the tree-toad.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)
Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
“I’m drouthy, Nanny,” the doctor said, to give her something to do, “and I would be obliged for a drink of water.”
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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