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dreg

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɹɛɡ/Part of speech nounSorted degrStarts with DEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a small amount of residue

Word origin

Borrowed from Old Norse dregg (“sediment”), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment”); see also Latin fraces (“lees of oil”), Albanian ndrag (“to make dirty, foul”), dra (“sediments of dairy products or liquids”).

Used in a sentence

  • to the last dreg
  • What makes this pretty abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love?
  • O! be the cup of joy to thee consign'd, / Of joy unmix'd, without a dreg behind!

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