droughty

comparative droughtier · superlative droughtiest · alternative drouthy

1. Lacking rain.

   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.

   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

2. archaicDry; thirsty.

   thou muſt / With taſteleſs Water waſh thy droughty Throat.

   1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 52