drooked

English

Etymology

From Scots drookit, of uncertain origin. See drook, drouk.

Verb

drooked

  1. simple past and past participle of drook

Adjective

drooked (comparative more drooked, superlative most drooked)

  1. Drenched, soaked.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 122:
      And then a queer thought came to her there in the drooked fields, that nothing endured at all, nothing but the land she passed across […].
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