Dreck

//dɹɛk// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    trash; worthless merchandise. informal, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    merchandise that is shoddy or inferior wordnet

Synonyms

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crapcultchdebrisdrekgarbagejunk

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"I shvitzed the whole day while schlepping that dreck around."

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, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).

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