drek

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See also: dręk, drëk, and dřék

English

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Noun

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drek (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of dreck

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Dreck, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drek m inan

  1. (archaic) shit
  2. (figurative) nothing

Declension

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Further reading

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  • drek”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • drek”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • drek”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch drec, from Old Dutch *threkk, form 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 English dreck, German Dreck (dirt; filth), Old Norse þrekkr, Swedish träck. Wider Indo-European cognates include Latin stercus (dung, manure).

Attested since 1285 in the sense "filth, excrement".

Noun

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drek m (uncountable)

  1. dirt, filth
  2. excrement
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From direct.[1]

Adverb

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drek

  1. (dialectal) later, later today
    Synonym: straks

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Dreck, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drȅk m (Cyrillic spelling дре̏к)

  1. (dialectal) shit, crap
  2. (dialectal) dreck

Declension

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Slovene

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Dreck, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drȅk m inan

  1. (vulgar) shit

Inflection

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative drèk
genitive drêka
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
drèk
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
drêka
dative
(dajȃlnik)
drêku
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
drèk
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
drêku
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
drêkom

Further reading

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  • drek”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran