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dreggy

American  
[dreg-ee] / ˈdrɛg i /

adjective

dreggier, dreggiest
  1. abounding in or like dregs; filthy; muddy.


dreggy British  
/ ˈdrɛɡɪ /

adjective

  1. like or full of dregs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of dreggy

1400–50; late Middle English. See dreg, -y 1


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Sandy had no job and lived in a downscale apartment in a dreggy section of town.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2014

It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism."

From Time Magazine Archive

This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

To Jess, accustomed to the mild but beautiful savor of a country town, the dreggy Bohemia was sugar and spice.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

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