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dreck

/dɹɛk/

dreck noun: trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.

Noun

dreck (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
    • Unfortunately, the conversation soon turned into a late-night freshman-year dorm-room debate, as he stumbled into a controversy of his own making by using Holocaust deniers and their appalling falsehoods as an example of how much dreck should be allowed on the platform.2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2020

dreck meaning in Bengali

dreck in Bengali

আবর্জনা, বাজে জিনিস, অপ্রয়োজনীয়, মূল্যহীন বস্তু

Synonyms of dreck

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Forms of dreck

alternative formdrek

Origin of dreck

From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz. Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).

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Questions about dreck

What does dreck mean?
Dreck means trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
What is dreck in Bengali?
Dreck in Bengali is আবর্জনা, বাজে জিনিস, অপ্রয়োজনীয়. See Dreck meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is dreck?
Dreck is a noun.
How do you pronounce dreck?
Dreck is pronounced /dɹɛk/.

Words near dreck in the dictionary

  1. Drechsel
  2. Drechsels
  3. Drechsler
  4. Drechslers
  5. Drechterland
  6. dreck
  7. dreckier
  8. dreckiest
  9. dreckiness
  10. dreckish
  11. dreckitude

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dreck (page history and authors); dreck (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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