dreg
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Definition of dreg
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, form-of, in-plural, singular, uncountable)singular of dregs (“sediment in a liquid”)
“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!”
“Fear and trauma may drain to the last dreg the dischargeable nervous energy, and, therefore, the greatest possible exhaustion may be produced by fear and trauma.”
““Ay, thou doubter! Ay thou disbelieving dreg!””
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Etymology
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”).
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