DryThirsty. Hence to drink is to “wet your whistle” (i.e. throat); and malt liquor is called “heavy wet.” (Anglo-Saxon dryg, dry.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Dry from Infoplease:
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