dreck en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /dɹɛk/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz. Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
Meanings
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(informal, uncountable) Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
Unfortunately, the conversation soon turned into a late-night freshman-year dorm-room debate, as he stumbled into a controversy of his own making by using Holocaust deniers and their appalling falsehoods as an example of how much dreck should be allowed on the platform.
2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2020:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| drek | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
dreckness · drecky · dreckish · dreckitude
Synonyms
cultch · shit · rubbish · junk · crap · litter · piece of shit · service item · drek · dreck · roughage · refuse · stuff · gash · piece of trash · pile of shit · crap · trash · piece of garbage · pile of crap · debris · junk · piece of crap · trash · garbage · waste · pelf