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drear
[
dreer
]
Origin
drear
/
drɪər
/
Show Spelled
[
dreer
]
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adjective
Literary
.
dreary.
Origin:
1620–30;
back formation from
dreary
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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drear
1620s, poetic shortening of
dreary
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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