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dreck.

Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/dɹɛk/
  1. Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.

    informal · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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”).

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