dreigh

American  

[dreekh] / drix /

adjective

Scot. and North England.

1. dree.

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Etymology

Origin of dreigh

Variant of driegh

Example Sentences

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 The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

The moor was dreigh, and Meg was skeigh, Her favour Duncan could na win; For wi' the rock she wad him knock, And aye she shook the temper-pin.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

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 The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

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 Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

There they are that were capering on their prancing nags four days since, and they are now ganging as dreigh and sober as oursells the day.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir