drook

present singular third person drooks · participle present drooking · participle past drooked · past drooked

1. Northern EnglandScotlandTo drench, to soak.

   She doesn't wait for an answer. She marches on inside. A few moments later droukit Hugh and dry Weir hear a door slamming and a loud peal of female laughter.

   2000, James Robertson, The Fanatic, page 298

   3 more examples

   Ellen, when she came ashore, was as druckit as a water-wagtail. We had no time to think o' these matters, though. On we behoved to tramp, and we got all to the Duke's quarters about two in the morning. But, […]

   1823, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton, page 243

   […] a heavy smirr of rain was drooking the grass, and the trees on every hand shook the water in blobs from the branches. Through them the lights of the finest town in the world shone damp and woe-begone.

   1903, Neil Munro, The Lost Pibroch: And Other Sheiling Stories, page 92

   Girls often came home from a feet-washing "fairly drooked," but a wetting like this was never regretted by the one who secured the ring. While this merriment was going on in the wedding house the bridegroom was the victim of much[…]

   1913, Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, and Sutherland, page 153

plural drooks

1. alternativeAlternative form of droke.