drek

See also: dręk, drëk, and dřék

English

Noun

drek (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of dreck.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dreck, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdrɛk]

Noun

drek m inan

1. (archaic) shit
2. (figurative) nothing

Declension

Declension of drek (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	drek	dreky
genitive	dreku	dreků
dative	dreku	drekům
accusative	drek	dreky
vocative	dreku	dreky
locative	dreku	drecích
instrumental	drekem	dreky

Further reading

• “drek”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “drek”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “drek”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɛk/
• Hyphenation: drek
• Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch drec, from Old Dutch *threkk, from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”).

Compare English dreck, German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Old Norse þrekkr, Swedish träck. Wider Indo-European cognates include Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).

Attested since 1285 in the sense "filth, excrement".

Noun

drek m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. dirt, filth
2. excrement

Derived terms

• drekpoëet

Etymology 2

From direct.

Adverb

drek

1. (dialectal) later, later today

   Synonym: straks

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dreck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drêk/

Noun

drȅk m inan (Cyrillic spelling дре̏к)

1. (dialectal) shit, crap
2. (dialectal) dreck

Declension

Declension of drek

	singular
nominative	drȅk
genitive	drèka
dative	dreku
accusative	drek
vocative	dreku / dreče
locative	dreku
instrumental	drekom

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dreck

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɛ́k/

Noun

drȅk m inan

1. (vulgar) shit

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	drèk
genitive	drêka
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	drèk
genitive (rodȋlnik)	drêka
dative (dajȃlnik)	drêku
accusative (tožȋlnik)	drèk
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	drêku
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	drêkom

Further reading

• “drek”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026