droughty

• drouthy

drought +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaʊti/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈdɹʌʊɾi]
• Rhymes: -aʊti

droughty (comparative droughtier, superlative droughtiest)

1. 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.

2. (archaic) Dry; thirsty.
   • 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 52:

     thou muſt / With taſteleſs Water waſh thy droughty Throat.