dreck

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dreck

/dɹɛk/

Rhymes with -ɛk

Where it 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”).

noun drek

informal, uncountable Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff. 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.
Similar: crap, junk, trash, cultch, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, litter, pelf, piece of crap

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@misc{dreck_2026,
  title = {dreck},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dreck},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}