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- noun a
drawn-out period where the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time- shorter and not as severe as adrought - noun a period or time where there is little activity, productivity, low income etc.
- noun a period of time of sexual abstinence, excluding
masturbation , and usually not willful but due to lack of asex partner
Etymologies
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Originated around 1885-1890.
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