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Thirsty
Definitions
- 1 Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
"After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty."
- 2 Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal. euphemistic
"After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty."
- 3 Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink. informal, uncommon
"Marching is thirsty work."
- 4 Craving something immaterial. figuratively
"thirsty for knowledge"
- 5 Craving something immaterial.; Craving or desiring sex. figuratively, slang
"This is the third time that girl brought up her crush. She must really be thirsty for him."
- 1 able to take in large quantities of moisture wordnet
- 2 (usually followed by ‘for’) extremely desirous wordnet
- 3 feeling a need or desire to drink wordnet
- 4 needing moisture wordnet
- 1 One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.). countable, plural-normally, uncountable
"The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts."
- 2 Thirst. countable, uncountable
"There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we.""
Etymology
From Middle English thirsti, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-Germanic *þurstugaz. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.
From Middle English thirsti, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-Germanic *þurstugaz. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.
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