Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Trashy; of no worth; filthy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Filthy; worthless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
filthy ;worthless
Etymologies
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Anglo-Saxon daerstan, dresten, dregs.
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Examples
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So I intend to inform the OED that the word drasty has been revived and brought into gen-u-wine contemporary use in a 2005 poem, and I want to see it in the next edition with the Chasar citation.
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Unsure if this was the intended meaning, I took advantage of the miracle of the internet and asked the author, who said that it was; furthermore, it was a reminiscence of Chaucer's tale of Sir Thopas, where Chaucer is interrupted by the Host and told, "Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!"
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Interestingly enough, drasty was sometimes misread/misprinted as drafty that darned long s, no doubt, and it appears that way in some editions of Chaucer.
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