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单词 dreck
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Definition of dreck in English:

dreck

(also drek)
noun drɛkdrek
mass nouninformal
  • Rubbish; trash.

    this so-called art is pure dreck
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Maybe you told your mother-in-law that you love her stuffed cabbage casserole and you're just dying to tell someone what kind of dreck it really was.
    • At first I thought it was a lack of talent, but I remember thinking that this group of finalists were much better than last year's dreck.
    • The very thought that I will be lumped in with lovers of such horrid dreck makes me physically ill.
    • His conduct since then - culminating in this piece of drek - is an absolute disgrace.
    • You certainly have to wade through some dreck to get to these gems, but the series' quality control bar is set high enough that none of it's particularly excruciating.
    • The Washington Post should be ashamed of publishing such dreck.
    • If she's given dreck to work with - which she often is - she falls hard.
    • There was also plenty of dreck in the past, just as there is now.
    • How this dreck even got nominated for Best Picture troubles me.
    • The overrated artists and the troops of pack-mentality fans were knee-deep in garbage, dreck, debris, and junk.
    • There is lots of drek out there from signed bands and this lot do quite a bit with what they have.
    • Can we blame him for figuring out what sort of dreck causes people to fork over money by the handful?
    • Of course producing and promoting dreck is nothing new.
    • I will confine myself to saying that this highly praised movie is Marxist dreck.
    • But on the other hand, there's also a lot more drek out there to sift through.
    • Since my son was born, I too have gotten religion and realized that my time is too important to waste watching dreck.
    • Comic book movies are pretty hit-and-miss affairs, so most of the time you go in with no idea at all of whether it will be terrific or pure dreck.
    • The dreck, it appears, continues to spill over on this side of the Atlantic.
    • Does he really think Americans are so stupid they will pay to watch this dreck?
    • Another reader wrote: ‘I can't believe you forced me to listen to that dreck!’
    Synonyms
    debris, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, refuse, rubbish, litter, scrap, flotsam and jetsam, lumber, rubble, wreckage

Derivatives

  • dreckish

  • adjective
    informal
    • Why are all the dreckish adaptations so easy to find and the quality ones so difficult?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But, it's got a nice entertainment value, in a sick, dreckish, reality TV kind of way.
  • drecky

  • adjectiveˈdrɛkiˈdrɛki
    informal
    • Of poor quality and little value.

      a dreadful, drecky rip-off of a sensational Japanese film
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I even change into extra drecky clothes when ever I go, so as to be totally unappealing.
      • Well, at least the drecky first draft of the book was finished.
      • She hasn't made anything terribly drecky yet, but she's young.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Yiddish drek 'filth, dregs', from a Germanic base shared by Old English threax; probably related to Greek skatos 'dung'.

Rhymes

beck, bedeck, check, cheque, Chiang Kai-shek, crosscheck, Czech, deck, exec, fleck, heck, hitech, keck, lek, neck, peck, Québec, rec, reck, sec, sneck, spec, speck, spot-check, tec, tech, Toulouse-Lautrec, trek, wreck
 
 

Definition of dreck in US English:

dreck

(also drek)
noundrek
informal
  • Rubbish; trash.

    this so-called art is pure dreck
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You certainly have to wade through some dreck to get to these gems, but the series' quality control bar is set high enough that none of it's particularly excruciating.
    • Can we blame him for figuring out what sort of dreck causes people to fork over money by the handful?
    • At first I thought it was a lack of talent, but I remember thinking that this group of finalists were much better than last year's dreck.
    • Does he really think Americans are so stupid they will pay to watch this dreck?
    • Maybe you told your mother-in-law that you love her stuffed cabbage casserole and you're just dying to tell someone what kind of dreck it really was.
    • The overrated artists and the troops of pack-mentality fans were knee-deep in garbage, dreck, debris, and junk.
    • How this dreck even got nominated for Best Picture troubles me.
    • The Washington Post should be ashamed of publishing such dreck.
    • Since my son was born, I too have gotten religion and realized that my time is too important to waste watching dreck.
    • There is lots of drek out there from signed bands and this lot do quite a bit with what they have.
    • There was also plenty of dreck in the past, just as there is now.
    • But on the other hand, there's also a lot more drek out there to sift through.
    • If she's given dreck to work with - which she often is - she falls hard.
    • The dreck, it appears, continues to spill over on this side of the Atlantic.
    • Comic book movies are pretty hit-and-miss affairs, so most of the time you go in with no idea at all of whether it will be terrific or pure dreck.
    • His conduct since then - culminating in this piece of drek - is an absolute disgrace.
    • Another reader wrote: ‘I can't believe you forced me to listen to that dreck!’
    • The very thought that I will be lumped in with lovers of such horrid dreck makes me physically ill.
    • I will confine myself to saying that this highly praised movie is Marxist dreck.
    • Of course producing and promoting dreck is nothing new.
    Synonyms
    debris, waste, waste matter, discarded matter, refuse, rubbish, litter, scrap, flotsam and jetsam, lumber, rubble, wreckage

Origin

Early 20th century: from Yiddish drek ‘filth, dregs’, from a Germanic base shared by Old English threax; probably related to Greek skatos ‘dung’.

 
 
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