Meanings
adjectivedrifty (comparative driftier, superlative driftiest)
comparative driftier · superlative driftiest
- Tending or seeming to drift.
The first time I heard them struggling with their electric instruments and singing in cracked falsettos, I imagined a line of fishing boats puttering off into the fogbound sea of a cold New England morn. "Ah, Shrimp Boat," I exclaimed, "what a fine name for sounds so churning and drifty!"
1988 November 18, Renaldo Migaldi, “Shrimp Boat”, in Chicago Reader - dialectalAbounding with driving snow or drift.
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*drībaną
- Proto-Germanic*driftiz
- Old English*drift
- Middle Englishdrift
- Englishdrift
- Englishdrifty
Cite this entry
APA
drifty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drifty
MLA
“drifty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drifty. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drifty,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drifty.
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