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comparative thirstier, superlative thirstiest
Needing to drink. examples
Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink (informal). quotations examples
I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.
2004, Charlotte Williamson, Vehicle maintenance for women
(figurative) Craving something.
(slang, figurative) Desiring sex.
countable and uncountable, plural thirsties
(usually in the plural) One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.). quotations examples
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.
1919, The Mines Magazine, page 99
A thirsty looking for a draught of water finds a welcome sea of water.
2004, Sura College of Competition, Junior Knowledge Book, page 107
Another way to limit the use of thirsty plants […] Here small beds of flowers, azaleas, and other "thirsties" could be grown satisfactorily.
1990, George Waters, The Pacific Horticulture Book of Western Gardening, David R Godine Pub, page 18
You are like a stream of water to a thirsty in a desert.
2018, Pijush Kanti Mukherjee, CoMa Chose Life
Young Duchess watched the two accomplices, she seemed a thirsty who tastes clear and fresh water after having longed for it: for a moment she preserves an expression that expresses disbelief, as if she had discovered a completely new .
2019, Alessia Ferrari Dream, A medieval Saga
Thirst. quotations examples
There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we."
1948, Esther Warner, New Song in a Strange Land, page 36
The captain would have to spend all his fortune trying to quench the Dark tenant's thirsty. A thirsty that has spanned thousands of years and never been quenched. Provide for his lusts!
2012, Joyce Bethwane, You Are Not Your Own, page 58
Afterwards Marguerite declared herself super-hungry, and also thirsty. 'Not super-thirsty, Regular thirsty. Let's say a thirsty that has worked out, learned martial arts and designed its own bat-suit. But definitely super-hunggry.
2017, Adam Roberts, The Real-Town Murders