drouth
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /dɹaʊθ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -aʊθ
Noun
editdrouth (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.