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dratchell

dratchell is the obsolete form of drossel.

Meaning of drossel

Noun

drossel (plural drossels)

  1. (obsolete) A slut; a hussy.
    • Now dwels each Drossell in her Glasse.1602, William Warner, Albion's England

Forms of dratchell

pluraldratchells

Questions about dratchell

What is dratchell the obsolete form of?
Dratchell is the obsolete form of drossel.

Words near dratchell in the dictionary

  1. drastic times call for drastic measures
  2. drastically
  3. drastick
  4. drastics
  5. drat
  6. dratchell
  7. dratchells
  8. drate
  9. drats
  10. dratted
  11. dratting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dratchell (page history and authors); drossel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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