drouthy

American  

[drou-thee] / ˈdraʊ ði /

adjective

drouthier, drouthiest

1. droughty.

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drouthy British  

/ ˈdrʊθɪ /

adjective

1. thirsty or dry

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Other Word Forms

• drouthiness noun

Example Sentences

The reader will now agree with me that El-Wijh is not too drouthy for a quarantine-ground.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Indeed, ma'am, I thought master had prayed so long he'd be drouthy.

From Ruth by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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)

Fear not that your watery hair Will thirst in drouthy ringlets there— Clouds of stored summer rains Thou shalt taste before the stains Of the mountain soil they take, And too unlucent for thee make.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

Never were canteens crowded so quickly, never have hundreds of the hungry and drouthy clamoured so eagerly for admission as on that day.

From The Red Horizon by MacGill, Patrick