trocken.
dry (not wet; lacking water)
Meaning & usage
dry (not wet; lacking water)
Ein Bier, bitte, meine Kehle ist ganz trocken.
dry (not sweet)
dry (abstinent after having had an alcohol problem)
dry (subtly humorous, and often mildly rude)
dry (dull, boring)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German trucken, trocken, from Old High German truckan, trokkan (“dried out, parched, thirsty, dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drukn, from Proto-Germanic *druknaz, *druhnaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). The form trucken was originally predominant, but the word eventually became standardized in an old western variant with -o-. Cognate with Old Saxon drokno (“dry”, adverb), Old English ġedrycnan (“to dry up”).
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