dry – English noun declension

English noun forms of dry

Noun: dry
Singulardry
Pluraldrys; dries

Sample Sentences

  • This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
  • The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half. [c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996]
  • Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
  • […] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […] [1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 91:]
  • [T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry. [2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169:]
  • All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry. [1968, Bee Gees, “Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry”, in Idea(album):]
  • Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative? [2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor:]
  • Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title). [2021 July 26, cub_beer, “Archived copy”, in eBay, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021:]

Etymology

1. Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
2. cognates and related terms
3. Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree. See: Middle English Nouns 'drye', Old English Nouns 'drȳġe', Old English Nouns 'drȳġan', Icelandic Nouns 'draugur', Icelandic Nouns 'drjúgur', Latin Nouns 'firmus'.

Verbs referencing "dry"

English Nouns drug.