drook

English

Verb

drook (third-person singular simple present drooks, present participle drooking, simple past and past participle drooked)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To drench, to soak.
   • 1823, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton, page 243:

     Ellen, when she came ashore, was as druckit as a water-wagtail. We had no time to think o' these matters, though. On we behoved to tramp, and we got all to the Duke's quarters about two in the morning. But,  […]

   • 1903, Neil Munro, The Lost Pibroch: And Other Sheiling Stories, page 92:

     […] a heavy smirr of rain was drooking the grass, and the trees on every hand shook the water in blobs from the branches. Through them the lights of the finest town in the world shone damp and woe-begone.

   • 1913, Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, and Sutherland, page 153:

     Girls often came home from a feet-washing "fairly drooked," but a wetting like this was never regretted by the one who secured the ring. While this merriment was going on in the wedding house the bridegroom was the victim of much […]

   • 2000, James Robertson, The Fanatic, page 298:

     She doesn't wait for an answer. She marches on inside. A few moments later droukit Hugh and dry Weir hear a door slamming and a loud peal of female laughter.

Noun

drook (plural drooks)

1. Alternative form of droke

References

• Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “DROUK”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

Scots

Verb

drook

1. Alternative form of drouk (“drench, soak”)
   • 1864, William Duncan Latto, Tammas Bodkin: Or The Humours of a Scottish Tailor, page 71:

     […] drookit like a drooned moose. My mither grat like a bairn when she beheld him in sic a waefu' plight, thinkin' that he had gotten himsel' brained in battle wi' Willie Stringan, an' when Jock, an' Chirstie, an' me saw her […]

   • 1890, James Coghill, Poems, Songs and Sonnets, page 54:

     Rain fell in ae unbroken sheet / An' drook't me thro' frae heid to feet; / "A storm like this I needna face, / I'd best gae hame […]

   • 1896, Gabriel Setoun, Sunshine and Haar: Some Further Glimpses of Life at Barncraig, page 181:

     […] he had seen him passing over the Cox'l in all the rain, "drenched and drooket," with his umbrella carried carefully under his arm.