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See: jejune, languid, lifeless, pedestrian, prosaic, unproductive

DRY. Used figuratively, it signifies that which produces nothing; as, dry exchange; dry rent; rent seek.



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Byline: JONATHAN NEALE I RECENTLY saw at first hand how drys tone walls should be built, when I joined the National Trust's Carneddau Warden, Dewi Roberts, to see ongoing wall building work at Blaen y Nant farm in the Nant Francon valley.
If the lads want to play with their wet 'n' drys or the girls with their anglegrinders, it's not unusual.
Dyma drys or yng ngwir ystyr y gair, ac i ddyfynnu'r awdur yn ei ragair: ``Dyma fardd y bydolwg hollgynhwysol sy'n bwrw'i rwyd, ei gyflawn we', dros elfennau gwrthgyferbyniol ac sy'n dathlu gwahaniaeth a thensiwn o fewn perthynas ddrutach undod.
 
 
 
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