dreich

dreich
Often used to describe Scotland's weather on a grey,damp or wet, miserable day.
Can also apply to a boring person, speech, sermon, etc, and is thus siimilar to drab.
Pronounced dreech.....(ch as in Loch).

Think I'll stay indoors & watch the footie(football) - it's a bit dreich outdoors.


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  • dreich — Often used to describe Scotland s weather on a grey,damp or wet, miserable day. Can also apply to a boring person, speech, sermon, etc, and is thus siimilar to drab. Pronounced dreech.....(ch as in Loch). Think I ll stay indoors & watch the… …   Dictionary of american slang

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  • dreich — adjective Etymology: Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse drjūgr lasting Date: 1813 chiefly Scottish dreary …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • dreich — adjective bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary …   Wiktionary

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