drys
SayDRYZ/dɹaɪz/
- 1Plural of dry.
The drys carried the referendum, and saloons across the state shut their doors.
During the Prohibition debates, the drys clashed with brewers at every public hearing.
Note
A plural that keeps its y: drys, not dries, which is the spelling the verb takes (the paint dries overnight). The distinction matters most in the US political sense, where the drys were prohibitionists and the noun names people rather than places or processes. Other countable senses, such as an area of waterless country in Australian use, form their plural the same way.
drys is a form of dry
dry, noun: The process of removing moisture from something. Full entry
- Spelling
- dry → drys: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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