Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Scotch form of dree.

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Examples

  • Gee thanks for that comment Nich, it's really cheered this dreigh Monday morning up.

    No nominations please Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • There they are that were capering on their prancing nags four days since, and they are now ganging as dreigh and sober as oursells the day.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Oh, cauld is the night, and the way dreigh and dreary,

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Aweel, Wully was an unco praying kind o’ man; a dreigh body, nane o’ my kind, I never could abide the sight o’ him; onyway he was a great hand by his way of it, and he up and rebukit the Master for some of his ongoings.

    Summary of Events (continued) 1889

  • The ASH is a manly tree, but "dreigh and dour" in the leafing; and yonder stands an Ash-grove like a forest of ships with bare poles in the docks of Liverpool.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

  • There they are that were capering on their prancing nags four days since, and they are now ganging as dreigh and sober as oursells the day.

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

  • Trow ye yon’s the gate to heaven, that ye are sae fain of? — maybe we will win there the night yet, God sain us, though our minny here’s rather dreigh in the upgang.”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • --- maybe we will win there the night yet, God sain us, though our minny here's rather dreigh in the upgang. ''

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

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