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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To vex; trouble; oppress.
  2. To delay; linger.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To vex; grill; trouble; oppress.
  2. v. intransitive To delay; linger; tarry.
  3. v. intransitive, Scotland To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter.
  4. n. An idle wench; a flattern.
  5. n. Scotland A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete See drecche.

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-Germanic *drakjanan (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch ("to dawdle"), Dutch trekken ("to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek"), German trecken ("to draw, trek"), Danish trække ("to draw, pull"), Norwegian dråk ("stripe"), Swedish dialectal drakig ("striped, streaked"), Icelandic rák ("streak"). (Wiktionary)

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  • “After Miriam and I fought the dretch in the dark and I had to feel around on the floor to work out if we'd killed it yet or not let me tell you, that is one of the most revolting things I've ever experienced, even including the time Sago drank too much and threw up on me at one of his birthday parties and he'd been eating cake all night and I couldn't wash for half an hour because he wouldn't let me leave him on his own.”

    Gloria Goodbody

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  • shevek I like this word as much for what it rhymes with as for what it means. Fetch, catch, etch, retch, stretch, letch. So many poetic possibilities... Jul 13, 2008

  • she v., 'to trouble in sleep' and 'to be troubled in sleep' (from Old English) Jul 9, 2008

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