"dreckish" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more dreckish [comparative], most dreckish [superlative]
Etymology: From dreck + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|dreck|ish}} dreck + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} dreckish (comparative more dreckish, superlative most dreckish)
  1. Drecky; worthless.
    Sense id: en-dreckish-en-adj-YA9J9-7g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: draffy, junky, two-bit, bastardly, blown [obsolete], cacky [UK, slang, vulgar], chaffy [obsolete], cocking [vulgar], crapalicious [rare, slang], cruddy [slang], cullionly [obsolete], draffish, draffy [obsolete], dreckish, drecky, duffing [UK, obsolete, slang], floccinaucinihilipilificatious [humorous, rare], for the birds [informal], fucking [vulgar], garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable [obsolete], jabberwocky, junky, mouldy [UK], mucid [figuratively, rare], naughty [obsolete], no-account [UK, US], no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room [US, dated, idiomatic, slang], not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought [obsolete], of no value, pissass [idiomatic, vulgar], punk [US], putid, rubbishly [archaic], rubbishy, sixpenny [dated], scabbed, screwy [archaic], scummy [slang], shand [Scotland], shit, shitey [slang, vulgar], shitstained [vulgar], shitty-ass [US, slang, vulgar], sorry-ass [slang, vulgar], strawlike [figuratively], suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy [US, slang], trinkety, triobolar [obsolete], tripy, two-bit [US, idiomatic, slang], unappreciated, unvaluable [rare], vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless [Caribbean]
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            "US",
            "idiomatic",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "two-bit"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:worthless",
          "word": "unappreciated"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:worthless",
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "unvaluable"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:worthless",
          "word": "vain"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:worthless",
          "word": "valueless"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:worthless",
          "word": "worthless"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:worthless",
          "word": "worth nothing"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:worthless",
          "tags": [
            "Caribbean"
          ],
          "word": "wutless"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dreckish"
}

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