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thirsty, a.|ˈθɜːstɪ|
Forms: see thirst n.
[OE. þurstiᵹ, þyrstiᵹ, f. þurst, thirst n. + -iᵹ, -y. Cf. OS. thurstig, OHG. durstag.]
1. a. Having the sensation of thirst; feeling desire or craving for drink.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 35 Ic wæs ðyrstiᵹ and ᵹe saldon me dringe. c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxi[i]. 4 Wide urnon; þurstiᵹe muðe. c1200Ormin 6163 Forr þe birrþ fedenn hunngriȝ mann & þrisstiȝ ȝifenn drinnke. a1300Cursor M. 1020 (Cott.) Suld he neuer thresti [F. þristy, G. thristi, Tr. fursti] be. 1426Audelay Poems 7 The thorste ȝif dryng. c1440Alphabet of Tales 460 Hym thoght in his slepe þat hym was passand thrustie. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxii. 66, I fele my selfe nother hungry nor thrusty. 1549Compl. Scot. v. 34 Quhen ve ar thirsty, ve seik drynk. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 38 His office was the hungry for to feed, And thristy give to drinke. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. v. 38 The thirsty Cattel..abstain'd From Water. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. 79 The Fountain being..very inviting to the thirsty Passenger. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 319 The thirsty one, in that he thirsts, desires only drink.
b. transf. Of earth or plants: Greatly wanting moisture; dry, parched, arid.
1388Wyclif Isa. xxxv. 7 That that was drie, is maad in to a poond, and the thirsti..in to wellis of watris. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. iii. iv. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 140 Dry up thyne Erth tyll hyt be thrysty. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 80 b, The salte, bitter, and thirstie ground. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiv. xiv, Thou wondrously didst cause..From thirsty flynt a fountayne flow. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes i. xxii. 16 The tawny lion reigns Fierce on his native Afric's thirsty plains. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 254 The country was parched and thirsty.
2. fig. Having or characterized by a vehement desire or craving; eager, greedy.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xii, Swa swylᵹð seo ᵹitsung þa dreosendan welan..forþam hio hiora simle bið þursteᵹu. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 56 It semys bettir þat þe eres of þe folk be thristy to þe wordes of þe kyng. 1577Harrison England ii. i. (1877) i. 17 The thirstie desire of the people..to heare the word of God. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 727 When the thirsty Fire had drunk Their vital Blood. 1760Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 VI. 230 She has a mind thirsty after knowledge. 1831Lamb Elia, Newspapers 35 Yrs. ago, Refreshing to the thirsty curiosity of the traveller.
b. Of a motor vehicle, engine, etc.: that has a high fuel-consumption rate.
1977Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXV. 364/1 Larger and quieter aeroplanes and less thirsty engines. 1980Daily Tel. 9 July 12/5 It should..appeal to motorists wishing to move up from the normal run of mass-produced saloons without..running a bigger and thirstier model.
3. transf. That causes thirst. (Now colloq.)
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 152 Troubled with the dropsie..caused..or accompanied with a thirstie infirmitie. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. ii. 134 Our Natures doe pursue Like Rats that rauyn downe their proper Bane, A thirsty euill, and when we drinke, we die. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. iv. xlviii, Slices of the thirsty ham. 1897F. T. Jane Lordship, etc. i. 2 A thirsty walk up and down terrible bad roads. Mod. Thirsty weather and thirsty work.
4. Comb., as thirsty-cupped, thirsty-looking adjs.; thirsty frog, thirsty snake: see quots.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 70 b, There is..fiue kindes of Aspis. The first named Dipsas in Greeke, in Latine Situla, Thristie Snake. 1802Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 115 Thirsty Frog, Rana Sitibunda..Native of desert places about the river Ural:..has the habit of a toad. 1875Lanier Poems, Symphony 132 Marsh-plants, thirsty-cupped for rains. Mod. A thirsty-looking man standing outside a public-house. |