droughty
adj/ˈdɹaʊti/ · CA [ˈdɹʌʊɾi]
Etymology From drought + -y.
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
Archaic Dry; thirsty.
- thou muſt / With taſteleſs Water waſh thy droughty Throat.1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 52:
- Derived terms
- droughtiness