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dreg
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drɛg
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noun
1.
dregs,
the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
2.
Usually,
dregs.
the least valuable part of anything:
the dregs of society.
3.
a small remnant; any small quantity.
Origin:
1250–1300;
Middle English
<
Old Norse
dreg
yeast (plural
dreggjar
dregs); cognate with
Old Swedish
dräg
dregs
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dreg
(drɛɡ)
—
n
See also
dregs
a small quantity:
not a dreg of pity
[see
dregs
]
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dregs
(drɛɡz)
—
pl n
1.
solid particles that tend to settle at the bottom of some liquids, such as wine or coffee
2.
residue or remains
3.
slang
(
Brit
) a despicable person
[C14
dreg,
from Old Norse
dregg;
compare Icelandic
dreggjar
dregs, Latin
fracēs
oil dregs]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
dregs
c.1300, from O.N. dregg "sediment," from P.Gmc. *drag-. Replaced O.E. dræst, dærst.
dreg
see
dregs
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Dregs definition
(Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17, 22), the lees of wine which settle at the bottom of the vessel.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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His people like him who embrace a lack of imagination that are the
dregs
of
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Archeologists can tell by sampling the
dregs
.
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dregs
at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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from a bottle of medoc.
Spring was dominated by the coverage of the war, summer by the
dregs
of reality.
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dregs
.
She poured the
dregs
of a beer-jug over them, but they blazed up the brighter.
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