droughty

droughty

English

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Etymology

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English drought
English -y
English droughty

    From drought + -y.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈdɹaʊti/
    • (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈdɹʌʊɾi]
    • Rhymes: -aʊti

    Adjective

    droughty (comparative droughtier, superlative droughtiest)

    1. Lacking rain.
      • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, 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.
    2. (archaic) Dry; thirsty.

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