dregs

English

Etymology

See dreg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹɛɡz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡz

Noun

1. (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
2. (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.

   the dregs of society

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 9

     Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.

Usage notes

• The singular form dreg is far less common, but the phrase to the last dreg still has currency.

Synonyms

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• debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, loser, orts, outcast, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, trub

Translations

settled sediment

• Armenian: տականք (hy) (takankʻ), մրուր (hy) (mrur), դիրտ (hy) (dirt), նստվածք (hy) (nstvackʻ)
• Catalan: pòsit m, solatge m
• Czech: sedlina f
• Dutch: bezinksel (nl) n, droesem (nl) m
• Esperanto: feĉo
• Finnish: sakka (fi)
• French: lie (fr) f
• Galician: borra (gl) f
• Georgian: ცხიმოვანი ნარჩენები (cximovani narčenebi)
• German: Bodensatz (de) m, Satz (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρύξ f sg (trúx)

• Hebrew: מִשְׁקָע (he) m
• Icelandic: dreggjar m pl, botnfall (is) n
• Irish: moirt f, dríodar m, amhaisc f (literary)
• Italian: sedimento (it)
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• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تِڵپ (tillp), تِڵپە (tillpe), تِڵف (tillf), تِڵتە (tillte)

  Southern Kurdish: سِڵپ (sillp)

• Latin: faex f
• Latvian: duļķes f pl
• Maori: waipara, whaipara
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: لرد (fa) (lerd), درد (fa) (dord)
• Polish: fusy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: borra (pt) f
• Romanian: zaț (ro) n, drojdie (ro) f, sediment (ro) n
• Russian: оса́док (ru) m (osádok), отсто́й (ru) m (otstój), отбро́сы (ru) m pl (otbrósy), муть (ru) f (mutʹ)
• Sardinian: feche, feghe, fexa, fexi
• Spanish: poso (es) m, concho (es) f, hez (es) f, depósito (es)
• Swedish: bottensats (sv) c
• Tajik: дурда (durda), таҳшин (tahšin), шитта (šitta)

the worst and lowest

• Armenian: տականք (hy) (takankʻ)
• Czech: vyvrhel m
• Esperanto: aĉoj pl, aĉuloj pl (about people, derogatory)
• Finnish: pohjasakka (fi)
• French: lie (fr) f
• German: Abschaum (de) m, Dreck (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: σκύβαλον n (skúbalon)

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• Icelandic: sori m, úrhrak n
• Italian: feccia (it) f
• Portuguese: escória (pt) f
• Romanian: drojdie (ro) f
• Russian: отбро́сы (ru) m pl (otbrósy), отре́бье (ru) n (otrébʹje), подо́нки (ru) m pl (podónki)
• Spanish: escoria (es) f, mugre (es) f, hez (es) f
• Swedish: bottenskrap (sv) n, drägg (sv) n (about people, derogatory), avskum (sv) n
• Vietnamese: cặn bã (vi)

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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} feccia (it) f, ^{(please verify)} posatura f
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