dreck

dreck

noun \ˈdrek\

Definition of DRECK

: trash, rubbish

Variants of DRECK

dreck also drek \ˈdrek\

Examples of DRECK

1. The movie was pure dreck.
2. <he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain>

Origin of DRECK

Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec; akin to Old English threax rubbish

First Known Use: 1922

Related to DRECK

Synonyms

chaff, deadwood, debris, garbage (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste

Related Words

crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash; detritus, remains, rubble, ruins; dump, scrap heap; lumber, odds and ends, trumpery; flotsam, jetsam, wreckage; castoff, cull, discard, hand-me-down, reject, throwaway; nothing, straw, two bits

Near Antonyms

catch, gem, goody (or goodie), jewel, pearl, plum, prize, treasure, treasure trove, trove, valuable; booty, find, salvage

Rhymes with DRECK

beck, Cech, check, Czech, deck, Eck, fleck, heck, Lech, lek, neck, pec, peck, reck, sec, sneck, spec, speck, trek, wreak, wreck