drek

drek (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of dreck.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈdrɛk]

drek m inan

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

• “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), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /drɛk/
• Hyphenation: drek
• Rhymes: -ɛk

From Middle Dutch drec, from Old Dutch *threkk, 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 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".

drek m (uncountable)

1. dirt, filth
2. excrement

• drekpoëet

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drek

1. (dialectal) later, later today

   Synonym: straks

Borrowed from German Dreck

• IPA^(key): /drêk/

drȅk m inan (Cyrillic spelling дре̏к)

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

Borrowed from German Dreck

• IPA^(key): /drɛ́k/

drȅk m inan

1. (vulgar) shit

• “drek”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025