drecky
English
Etymology
From dreck + -y. Related to German dreckig (“dirty, trashy”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛki
Adjective
drecky (comparative dreckier, superlative dreckiest)
- trashy, worthless
- 2011, Thomas Adams and Yves Smith, FCIC Report Misses Central Issue: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?:
- And lenders still would suffer negative consequences for selling a bad product, even if they could get away with it for a while, such as loss of reputation due to inferior deal performance, losses on retained interests, and poor pricing for the drecky mortgages.
- 2011, Thomas Adams and Yves Smith, FCIC Report Misses Central Issue: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?:
Synonyms
- (of poor quality): crummy, cruddy, tenth-rate, worthless, trashy, two-bit, manky
- (godawful): crappy, shitty, grody, lousy, grotty, miserable