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drafty

[ draf-tee, drahf- ]

adjective

draftier, draftiest.
  1. characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.


drafty

/ ˈ»å°ùÉ‘Ë´Ú³Ùɪ /

adjective

  1. the usual US spelling of draughty
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ»å°ù²¹´Ú³Ù¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
  • ˈ»å°ù²¹´Ú³Ù¾±±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • »å°ù²¹´Ú³Ùi·±ô²â adverb
  • »å°ù²¹´Ú³Ùi·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of drafty1

First recorded in 1840–50; draft + -y 1
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By Sunday night, the Hearts had been sitting in their buckets for two days in a drafty tent just south of the Rose Bowl.

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On a brisk mid-March night in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley, more than 100 people crowded around a Grateful Dead cover band in a drafty warehouse.

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I’m not talking about a motel in the boonies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or a drafty log cabin on a lake in Maine or Minnesota.

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Large and drafty, the plastered walls still wet, the house was called the “great castle†by Abigail Adams.

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Most of the stores — big chains such as Sears, H&M and Forever 21, as well as little toy shops and boutique clothiers — were empty, dark and drafty, their metal gates permanently down.

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