English Explanatory Dictionary

dreck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. trash; worthless merchandise.

Pronunciation

/dɹɛk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dreck.wav

Word forms

dreck drek

Etymology

From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).

Synonyms

crap junk trash cultch debris dreck drek garbage gash litter pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit pile of crap pile of shit piece of trash rubbish refuse roughage service item shit stuff waste

Derived words

dreckish dreckitude dreckness drecky
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