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Webster 1913 Edition


Drifty

Drift′y

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Adj.
Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.

Definition 2024


drifty

drifty

English

Adjective

drifty (comparative driftier, superlative driftiest)

  1. Tending or seeming to drift
    • 1988 November 18, Renaldo Migaldi, “Shrimp Boat”, in Chicago Reader:
      "Ah, Shrimp Boat," I exclaimed, "what a fine name for sounds so churning and drifty!"
  2. (dialectal) Abounding with driving snow or drift.

Derived terms

  • driftily
  • driftiness