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UK
/dɹˈaʊθ/
]
NOUN
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a shortage of rainfall
farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season -
a prolonged shortage
when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought
How To Use drouth In A Sentence
- My late husband was from the Midwest St. Louis and always used the 'drouth' pronunciation. Chicagotribune.com - News
- Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount. How I Found Livingstone
- Some of our friends must be burning for a mouthful, poor dears; the wounded flesh is drouthy. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- Robin — the blue bowl — that will sloken all their drouth, and prevent the sinful repetition of whipping for an eke of a Saturday at e’en. Redgauntlet
- Lot's wife," we moved on again, past the glory of the lagoons, to further brumby encounters, carrying a water-bag on a pack-horse by way of precaution against further "drouths. We of the Never-Never
- Then, Dan discovering he had acquired the "drouth," advised "giving it best" and making for the Spring Hole in Duck Creek. We of the Never-Never
- He says "drouth" was quite common in its day - last century. Chicagotribune.com - News
- Devil, whilk is but an ill-omened drouthy name for a tavern. The Fortunes of Nigel
- If a season of drouth occurs when the cabbages have begun to head, the heads will harden prematurely; and then should a heavy rain fall, they will start to make a new growth, and the consequence will be many of them will split. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
- Don Juan _Don Juan_ or _hooan_ drought _drowt_ drouth _drowth_ extempore _extempore_ (four syllables) familiarity _familyarity_ gaol _jal_ genealogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ gemus _genyus_ Practical Grammar and Composition