Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The sediment in a liquid; lees. Often used in the plural.
- n. The basest or least desirable portion. Often used in the plural: the dregs of humanity.
- n. A small amount; a residue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete or colloquial singular of dregs.
- n. An obsolete form of dredge.
- An obsolete form of dredge
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small amount of residue
Etymologies
- From Icelandic dregg. Cognate with Albanian ndrag ("to make dirty, to foul"), dra ("sediments of dairy products or liquids") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dreg, from Old Norse dregg. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is similar to the practice of China government in repressing human rights activist Tan Zuoren, who disclosed the bean dreg school building construction problem in the Sichuan earthquake, with the charge of inciting sedition.”
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“Joe Wilson is a disgusting dreg of humanity and he makes me ashamed.”
“He out-aced the game's best server of recent times 24-9 and drained the American's legendary fighting spirit to the last dreg to win 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.”
The Guardian: Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka set for the battle of Switzerland
“I can't see so well, it's getting dark and the reeds are tall here, willowy reeds that slap your face when you climb down with your rake and cull and dreg the day.”
“Maybe some homeless dreg will puke on your loafers and the snowflakes will make you cold as they fall down the back of your shirt.”
“I don't have anything against Fabio, truth be told, I thought he died a few years back when he was on a roller coaster and a bird flew into his face and opened him up faster that a homeless dreg on a can of tuna.”
“ Readers familiar with Roosevelt ' s " Autobiography " — or other TR biographies — will be stunned to read Mr. Morris claiming that Roosevelt and progressives of his class looked down, with " aristocratic fastidiousness, " on " poor whites, and at the dreg level, imported coolies, reservation Indians, and disenfranchised blacks.”
“But who ultimately gets the spit infused dreg containers after they are binned?”
“While having absolute sympathy with your position and a great deal of admiration for your patience with this dreg of humanity, I would like to point out that some of your colleagues could use a word.”
“That Deputy Dawg-looking, dirty, deceitful dreg of the earth deserved to be cursed out, ghetto-style.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dreg’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Red Badge of Courage
purl, parallel, ardor, ethic, great, patriotism, shirk, picket, dreg, skedaddle, imitative
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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Delta
D
devolve, defenestrate, defenestration, didactic, dragoman, distaff, donga, dagmar, dickensian, diacritic, démarche, dreg and 26 more...
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Venus In Furs
disinter, subjugate, sober down, domineering, wantonly, coquettish, cossack, maxim, pasha, anvil, hoarfrost, carpathian and 51 more...
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jmhuff's Words
catharsis, kerfuffle, wry, defenestrate, kaffeeklatsch, fecundity, elan, dreg, capitulate, balmy, tangential, modicum and 15 more...
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ahermosi's list
random words that roll off my tongue
plethora, crass, indubitably, indeed, douche bag, dreg, kaleidoscopic, voracious, noisomeness, perspicacious, sagacious, cantankerous and 15 more...
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A begining
The start
panache, soirée, flummoxed, provenance, myopic, fisticuffs, cahoots, sycophant, kowtow, cavort, crony, draconian and 20 more...
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Food&Kitchen
drupe, brick, offal, triffle, scullion, larder, cog, tub, swill, dreg, banger, kedgeree and 25 more...
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soitoldthatfool's Words
terra incognita, tete à tete, gourmand, savant, lascivious, salacious, cretin, viscous, intrinsic, malaise, mien, milieu and 133 more...
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kibbles and bits
itty bitty "measurements"
smattering, smithereen, hint, tinge, drop, tad, iota, scrap, whiff, handful, taste, jiff and 34 more...
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