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English
Etymology
From drought + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
droughty (comparative droughtier, superlative droughtiest)
- 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.
- (archaic) Dry; thirsty.
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