dreck
Plural: drecks
Noun
- Worthless or trashy material; rubbish.
- merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
- Trash; worthless merchandise.
Examples
- He felt his hand of tiles was pure dreck, offering no good plays in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
schlock, shlock, crap, cultch, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, pile of crap, pile of shit, refuse, roughage, rubbish, service item, shit, stuff, trash, waste
Scrabble Score: 12
dreck: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddreck: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dreck: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary