- dreich
- adjective Etymology: Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse drjūgr lasting Date: 1813 chiefly Scottish dreary
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dreich — adjective or dreigh ˈdrēḵ Etymology: Middle English dregh, dreich, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse drjūgr substantial, lasting; akin to Old English drēogan to perform, endure more at drudge 1. chiefly Scotland a … Useful english dictionary
dreich — Often used to describe Scotland s weather on a grey,damp or wet, miserable day. Can also apply to a boring person, speech, sermon, etc, and is thus siimilar to drab. Pronounced dreech.....(ch as in Loch). Think I ll stay indoors & watch the… … Dictionary of american slang
dreich — Often used to describe Scotland s weather on a grey,damp or wet, miserable day. Can also apply to a boring person, speech, sermon, etc, and is thus siimilar to drab. Pronounced dreech.....(ch as in Loch). Think I ll stay indoors & watch the… … Dictionary of american slang
dreich — adj Scottish dreary. A dialect term which was occa sionally heard as a colourful new collo quialism in self conscious use amongst middle class inhabitants of England in the late 1990s. The weather is rather, as they say, dreich … Contemporary slang
dreich — dreary and tedious, as in The minister s sermon was gey dreich the day … Scottish slang
dreich — adjective bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary … Wiktionary
dreich — Scottish Vernacular Dictionary adj Description of the usual Scottish weather viz:Damp, dreary, overcast, drizzling, threatening to pish doon, looks like it will stay like this for weeks … English dialects glossary
dreich — [dri:x] adjective Scottish dreary; bleak. Origin ME (in the sense patient ): of Gmc origin … English new terms dictionary
The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian — The Preiching of the Swallow The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian is a cycle of connected poems by the Scottish makar Robert Henryson. In the accepted text it consists of thirteen versions of fables, seven modelled on stories from Aesop… … Wikipedia
droit — droit, droite 1. (droi, droi t ; le t se lie : un homme droi t et juste ; au pluriel, l s se lie : les hommes droî z et justes ; la prononciation dret, qui est normande, était encore usitée, à côté de l autre, dans le XVIIe siècle ; Vaugelas… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
