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Dreich may be the etymological forebear of drek, then. Any views?
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I never knew this was a real word! it was like snafu, or faquary (a contraction, for "Where the F*** are we?") a word that i used all the time, but never thought about!
dreich, or as i think of it, dreek, is cold, left over, day old coffee, that you are drinking because there is no fresh coffee to brew up, or some such.. (how can you drink that dreek?) and or a cold, windy, rainy, grey winter's day.. the kind you wake and want to just get back under the covers with a nice cup of cocoa, and good book..
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Gee--do philology and philately come from the same root?
Well, Phil O'logy was my ethics professor in college wheras Michael Philately is an Irish-American ex-riverdancer who tends to stamp quite a bit.
Okay, This isn't Wordplay and fun and I'm being flippant but I'm on a day off and I had to come into work to some stuff so I think I'm entitled to a bit of fun!
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Dreich may be the etymological forebear of drek, then. Any views? CK, I cannot forebear [  ] saying, "Honor thy yiddish!" Dreck is yiddish, and a commonly-used word. dreck: slang Trash, especially inferior merchandise. ETYMOLOGY: German, dirt, trash and Yiddish drek, excrement http://www.bartleby.com/61/63/D0386300.html "Dreich" is obscure scottish, and is pronuonced with a long-e sound.
http://www.scotsmagazine.com/words.htm#D
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