dreck
trash; worthless merchandise.
Noun
- trash; worthless merchandise.
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Synonyms: crap junk trash cultch debris dreck drek garbage gash litter pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit pile of crap pile of shit piece of trash rubbish refuse roughage service item shit stuff waste
Origin
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, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).