Dictionary

drecky en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɹɛki/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From dreck + -y. Related to German dreckig (“dirty, trashy”).

Meanings

1. trashy, worthless
   • She hated to think of her father kneeling beneath his workbench and locating that penciled heart, hated the idea of Don Armour’s drecky insinuations entering her father’s prudish ears, hated to imagine how keenly it offended a man of such discipline and privacy to learn that Don Armour had been roaming and poking through his house at will. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
   • And lenders still would suffer negative consequences for selling a bad product, even if they could get away with it for a while, such as loss of reputation due to inferior deal performance, losses on retained interests, and poor pricing for the drecky mortgages. 2011, Thomas Adams, Yves Smith, FCIC Report Misses Central Issue: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?:

Forms

Deriveds

dreckiness

Relateds

dreckish

Synonyms

coffee-and · nonvaluable · poor · ass · schlocky · mouldy · garbage · junky · sad · for the birds · cheap and nasty · shit · strawlike · under par · bottom-shelf · shitty-ass · cacky · gash · sorry-ass · chintzy · slazy · sixpenny · fucking · chaffy · low · slim · pissass · pound-shop · cheapshit · lousy · not worth a nickel · not worth a farthing · dreckish · dogwater · shit · low-quality · bad · wretched · good-for-naught · slight · second-rate · trash · bastardly · vain · ineffectual · no-account · unvaluable · crappy · naughty · garbagey · one-star · draffish · valueless · suckworthy · nought · punk · worthless · shitstained · no good / no-good · shoddy · trinkety · blown · base · not worth a whistle · god-awful · not worth a Continental · below par · subpar · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · tenth-rate · shite · duffing · shitty · goodless · not worth hell room · rubbishy · shitey · cruddy · BTEC · mid · not worth a penny · trashy · tripy · cullionly · punk · screwy · crappo · cheesy · jabberwocky · low-grade · craptastic · bum · poor man's · shand · rubbishly · two-bit · of no value · substandard · not worth a curse · invaluable · tin-pot · woeful · not worth a cent · trashy · ticky-tacky · inferior · crap · not worth a dime · not worth a damn · fourth-rate · not worth salt · low-rent · triobolar · unappreciated · wutless · craptabulous · not worth a plug nickel · valueless · scabbed · crapalicious · not worth a cress · dreckish · rinky-dink · drecky · flimsy · pathetic · made in China · cocking · draffy · crummy · mucid · putid · toshy · drecky · cheap · scummy · not worth a brass farthing · craptacular · third-rate · cruddy · rubbish · worth nothing · ropy · tenth-rate · scrubby · crapperific · naughty · cruddy · good-for-nothing