drouthy

Droughty, dry.

Adjective

Droughty, dry.
- 1951 June, Herman L. Wascher, R. S. Smith, R. T. Odell, Soil Report 74: Iroquois County Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, page 13, The drouthy sandy soils are not well adapted to the grain crops that grow...
- 1993, Thomas Foti, The River's Gifts and Curses, Jeannie Whayne, Willard B. Gatewood, The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox, page 45, That clay will not allow rainwater to penetrate far and will not give up much water to...
- 1962 [1948], Paul R. Beath (editor), Louise Pound (editor of 1962 edition), Febold Feboldson: Tall Tales from the Great Plains, page 58, Febold was always a good-natured cuss, but he really got peeved one year when the...
Thirsty.
- At parting, they bestowed a cup on him of a miraculous make, for it was ever full of wine, let the drinker be ever so drouthy. - 1835, Egerton Brydges, editor, Notes on Comus: The Poetical Works of John Milton, volume...
- A drouthier pair of mortals could not have been found anywhere, and, at the first draught, each emptied his cup to the bottom! - 1866, Mayne Reid, The Scalp Hunters: Or, Adventures Among the Trappers, page 187:
- "[…]Help yoursel' to some wine, Mr. Birkenshaw, for it's drouthy work talking." - 1899, John Buchan, A Lost Lady of Old Years, published 2013, unnumbered page:

From drouth + -y.