drooked

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Scots drookit, of uncertain origin.

Adjective[edit]

drooked (comparative more drooked, superlative most drooked)

  1. Drenched, soaked.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 122:
      And then a queer thought came to her there in the drooked fields, that nothing endured at all, nothing but the land she passed across […].