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- [drek]
- /drɛk/
- /drˈek/
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- [drek]
- /drɛk/
Definitions of dreck word
- noun dreck excrement; dung. 1
- noun dreck worthless trash; junk. 1
- noun dreck Rubbish; trash. 1
- noun dreck rubbish; trash 0
- noun dreck trash; rubbish 0
- noun dreck trash, junk; worthless merchandise, crap. 0
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Origin of dreck
First appearance:
before 1920 One of the 12% newest English words
1920-25; < Yiddish drek; cognate with German Dreck filth; compare Old English threax, Old Norse threkkr excrement
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Parts of speech for Dreck
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
dreck popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 65% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
dreck usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for dreck
noun dreck
- soil — the act or fact of soiling.
- muck — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- stain — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- ground — the act of grinding.
Antonyms for dreck
noun dreck
- cleanliness — Cleanliness is the degree to which people keep themselves and their surroundings clean.
- pureness — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- sterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
- purity — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
Top questions with dreck
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