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freck

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /f??k/

Etymology 1

Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.

Verb

freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked)

  1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
    • 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
      the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • frack

Adjective

freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)

  1. (Scotland) prompt; eager

Anagrams

  • KFCer

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dreck

English

Alternative forms

  • drek

Etymology

From Yiddish ????? (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in m?sthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter?-, *(s)ter?-, *(s)tre?- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Compare Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dr?k, IPA(key): /d??k/
  • Rhymes: -?k

Noun

dreck (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Trash; worthless merchandise.
    Synonyms: crap, junk, trash; see also Thesaurus:trash

Derived terms

  • dreckish
  • drecky

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