drouth

English

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• IPA^(key): /dɹaʊθ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊθ

Noun

drouth (plural drouths)

1. Alternative form of drought
   • 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 174:

     Name other great catastrophes this world has seen, the floods, the fires, the earthquakes, plague or famine or drouth.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 4]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He listened to her licking lap. Ham and eggs, no. No good eggs with this drouth.