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drifty

drifty adjective: tending or seeming to drift.

Adjective

drifty (comparative driftier, superlative driftiest)

  1. Tending or seeming to drift.
    • The first time I heard them struggling with their electric instruments and singing in cracked falsettos, I imagined a line of fishing boats puttering off into the fogbound sea of a cold New England morn. "Ah, Shrimp Boat," I exclaimed, "what a fine name for sounds so churning and drifty!"1988 November 18, Renaldo Migaldi, “Shrimp Boat”, in Chicago Reader
  2. (dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.

Forms of drifty

comparativedriftier
superlativedriftiest

Origin of drifty

From drift + -y.

Words formed from drifty

Questions about drifty

What does drifty mean?
Drifty means tending or seeming to drift.
What part of speech is drifty?
Drifty is an adjective.

Words near drifty in the dictionary

  1. driftwinds
  2. driftwood
  3. driftwood catfish
  4. driftwood catfishes
  5. driftwoods
  6. drifty
  7. Drigg
  8. Drigg and Carleton
  9. Driggars
  10. Driggers
  11. Driggerses

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