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6-letter words (4 found)

CHIDER,DREICH,HERDIC,RICHED,

5-letter words (9 found)

CHIDE,CIDER,CRIED,DICER,DRICE,HIDER,HIRED,ICHED,RICED,

4-letter words (22 found)

CEDI,CHER,CHID,CIDE,CIRE,CRED,DICE,DICH,DIRE,ERIC,HEID,HEIR,HERD,HIDE,HIED,HIRE,ICED,ICER,IRED,RICE,RICH,RIDE,

3-letter words (20 found)

CHE,CHI,CID,DEI,DIE,ECH,EDH,HER,HIC,HID,HIE,ICE,ICH,IDE,IRE,REC,RED,REH,REI,RID,

2-letter words (10 found)

CH,DE,DI,ED,EH,ER,HE,HI,ID,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 66 words from dreich according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dreich

dreich

Etymology

The adjective is borrowed from Scots dreich (“hard to bear, dreary, tedious, wearisome; interminable, long-winded; dull, uninteresting; slow, tardy; doleful, gloomy; baffling, difficult; difficult to reach, inaccessible”), from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”) [and other forms], from Old English *drēog, drēoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly:

  • shortened from Old English ġedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective), from ġe- (prefix forming adjectives of association or similarity) + Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (“enduring, lasting”) (from *dreuganą (“to serve, be a retainer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to serve one’s tribe; loyal”)); and
  • influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above).

The noun is probably partly derived:

  • from the adjective; and
  • borrowed from Scots dreich (“dreariness, gloom”) (rare), probably from Middle English dri, drie (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”) [and other forms], possibly from dri, drie (adjective) (see above).

(Compare Old English ġedrēog (“seemliness; seriousness, sobriety; something appropriate or required”, noun), which did not survive into Middle English.)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɹiːx/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɹix/, /dɹik/
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /ðreː/, /driːx/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /drix/

Adjective

dreich (comparative dreicher, superlative dreichest) (Northern England, North Midlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland)

  1. Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing: unnecessarily verbose; long-winded.
    (long-winded): Synonyms: see Thesaurus:verbose
    (long-winded): Antonyms: see Thesaurus:concise
  2. Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:boring
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:exciting
  3. Bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
  4. Slow, sluggish; specifically, of a person: tending to delay or procrastinate (especially when paying for something).
    Synonyms: dilatory, tardy; see also Thesaurus:slow
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:speedy
  5. Of a person: having a dejected or serious appearance or mood; dour, gloomy, moody, morose, sullen.
  6. Of a task: laborious, tedious, troublesome; hence, needing concentration to understand; intricate.
    Synonyms: burdensome, taxing, toilsome
  7. Chiefly of rain: without pause or stop; continuous, incessant.
    Synonyms: persistent, sustained, unceasing, unending, unremitting; see also Thesaurus:continuous
  8. Of weather: dreary, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.).
  9. (obsolete)
    1. Of a person: negotiating forcefully; driving a hard bargain.
    2. Of a place (especially a hill or mountain): difficult to get through or reach; inaccessible.

Alternative forms

  • dree, dreigh
  • dreegh (Scotland)

Derived terms

  • dree (adverb)
  • dreichly

Translations

Noun

dreich (countable and uncountable, plural dreiches)

  1. (countable, Northern England, North Midlands) A tedious or troublesome task; also, the most tedious or troublesome part of a task.
  2. (uncountable, Scotland) Bleakness, gloom; specifically, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.) weather.

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References

Further reading

  • Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “DREE, adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 166–167.

Anagrams

  • chider, herdic, riched

Irish

Noun

dreich f sg

  1. dative singular of dreach (“front”)

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dreich”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English dregh, from Old English ġedrēog, *drēog, from Proto-West Germanic *dreug, from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz. Possibly influenced by Brythonic, e.g. Welsh drycin (“bad weather”) < drwg (“bad”) +‎ hin (“weather”).

Distantly cognate with English drudge, dree, and German trügen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /driːx/, /driːç/

Adjective

dreich (comparative mair dreich, superlative maist dreich)

  1. persistent, continuous, relentless
  2. slow, tardy
  3. dismal, dowie, dreary, bleak
  4. tedious, wearisome, drawn-out
  5. reluctant, tight-fisted, driving a hard bargain

Derived terms

  • dreichly
  • deid dreich
  • dreich in the draw

Source: wiktionary.org