dreich
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[edit] English
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[edit] Adjective
dreich (comparative more dreich, superlative most dreich)
- (Scotland) bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary
- 2002, Glasgow's ambassadors receive a dreich welcome in Havana — title of article in The Scotsman, 14 Nov 2002
- 2004, but driving home at this dreich hour and at the end of a difficult shift, she found the ectoplasmic fog unnerving — Susan Hill, The Various Haunts of Men (2004) page 4.
- 2008 used in BBC Radio 4 Weather forecast as interchangeable with "dreary/dismal" 4th Nov 2008 12:57
[edit] Scots
[edit] Etymology
From Old English *drēoh.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /driːx/
[edit] Adjective
dreich (comparative mair dreich, superlative maist dreich)
- persistent, continuous, relentless
- slow, tardy
- dismal, dowie, dreary, bleak
- 2000, Matthew Fitt, But n Ben A-Go-Go, Luath 2000, p.132:
- The dreich inhuman blue on Nadia's lang-wheesht thocht-screen fizzed intae life.
- 2000, Matthew Fitt, But n Ben A-Go-Go, Luath 2000, p.132:
- tedious, wearisome, drawn-out
- reluctant, tight-fisted, driving a hard bargain
