drouthy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- drouthiness noun
Example Sentences
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To see your game was such a treat, Great was my luck with you to meet; You are indeed a beauty without paint, The picture of a drouthy saint.'
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet
Southwards, again, on the pleasant Surrey downs there is shouting and jostling; dust that is drouthy and language that is sultry.
From Pagan Papers by Grahame, Kenneth
The next shipment would come from the flotsam of the year before, many of which were heavy beeves, intended for army delivery, but had fallen footsore on the long, drouthy march.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy
Still we find among the river-drift their flakes of ancient tile, And in drouthy middle August, when the bones of meadows show, We can trace the lines they followed sixteen hundred years ago.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
Once a week the "Social Jottings," bubbling from the effervescent Gold Pen, descended like rain upon the parched soil of drouthy Gueldersdorp.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
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