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Dreg

//dɹɛɡ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    singular of dregs (“sediment in a liquid”) countable, form-of, in-plural, singular, uncountable

    "to the last dreg"

  2. 2
    a small amount of residue wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse dregg (“sediment”), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment”); see also Latin fraces (“lees of oil”), Albanian ndrag (“to make dirty, foul”), dra (“sediments of dairy products or liquids”).

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