Bone-dry
very dry.
very thirsty.
Slang. dry (def 17).
Ceramics. (of clay) thoroughly dried.
Contemporary Examples
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Historical Examples
Frenzied Fiction Stephen Leacock
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
The Automobile Storage Battery O. A. Witte
December Love Robert Hichens
Through the Heart of Patagonia H. Hesketh Prichard
The A.E.F. Heywood Broun
Rung Ho! Talbot Mundy
Told in the East Talbot Mundy
adjective
(informal)
completely dry: a bone-dry well
(postpositive): the well was bone dry
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