drouth
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /dɹaʊθ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -aʊθ
Noun
[edit]drouth (plural drouths)
- 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.