Noun: drek
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like drek
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch drec, from Old Dutch *threkk, 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”).
2. Compare English dreck, German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Old Norse þrekkr, Swedish träck. Wider Indo-European cognates include Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
3. Attested since 1285 in the sense "filth, excrement". See: English Nouns '
dreck', German Nouns '
Dreck', Old Norse Nouns '
þrekkr', Swedish Nouns '
träck', Latin Nouns '
stercus'.
Verbs referencing "drek"
English Nouns
dreck.
Translations