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Definition of Drifty
1. a. Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
Definition of Drifty
1. Adjective. Tending or seeming to drift ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drifty
1. full of drifts (masses of wind-driven snow) [adj DRIFTIER, DRIFTIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drifty
Literary usage of Drifty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Boscawen and Webster [N.H.] from 1733 to 1878 by Charles Carleton Coffin (1878)
"Cold & drifty. " 13 Drifted some. " 14 Very cold & windy. ... 27 Cold, windy,
drifty '' — 2S. Snow 3 feet deep & weather cold, hay scarce and dear 8-30 per ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"The most dismal of all those on record is tke thirteen drifty days. This extraordinary
storm, as near as I have been able to trace, must have occurred in ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"drifty, adj. Abounding with snow-drift. A drifty day, a gusty snowy day, Aberd.
DRY-GAIR-FLOW, ». The place where two hills join, and form a kind of bosom, ..."
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