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dreigh

American  
[dreekh] / drix /

adjective

Scot. and North England.
  1. dree.


Etymology

Origin of dreigh

Variant of driegh

Example Sentences

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Aweel, Wully was an unco praying kind o’ man; a dreigh body, nane o’ my kind, I never could abide the sight of him; onyway he was a great hand by his way of it, and he up and rebukit the Master for some of his ongoings.

From Project Gutenberg

Oh, cauld is the night, and the way dreigh and dreary, The snaw 's drifting blindly o'er moorland an' lea; All nature looks eerie.

From Project Gutenberg

The Ash is a manly tree, but "dreigh and dour" in the leafing; and yonder stands an Ash-grove like a forest of ships with bare poles in the docks of Liverpool.

From Project Gutenberg

When thou an’ I were young an’ skeigh, An’ stable-meals at fairs were dreigh, How thou wad prance, an’ snore, an’ skreigh, An’ tak the road!

From Project Gutenberg

Aweel, Wully was an unco praying kind o' man; a dreigh body, nane o' my kind, I never could abide the sight o' him; onyway he was a great hand by his way of it, and he up and rebukit the Master for some of his on- goings.

From Project Gutenberg