Your Scottish Slang Word O' The Day: Drookit

Posted by Doug on January 18th, 2005

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drookit
(droo·kit) Dialect, chiefly Scot ~adj.
1. drenched, soaked through. (used in "Ah fell in the burn an' got drookit")

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