"dreggy" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "dreggier",
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      "form": "dreggiest",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "dregginess"
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1837 June, “The American Quarterly Review: March and June 1837”, in Horticulture, volume XXI, page 376:",
          "text": "In the third place, I truly esteem those that are pretty much perfumed and well scented, though I do not care that this perfection should be enclosed in a pulp that is extremely hard and full of dreggy matter, as the amadotte, the citron, and the great winter musk pears.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Ola West, A Clean Week, page 21:",
          "text": "Now, I have been in cleaning about two years and I know one thing, cleaning and catering are the dreggiest jobs to be in.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Rob Love, A Ballad of Love and War, iUniverse, page 185:",
          "text": "It was now dark and Heath found himself walking into the dreggiest part of town.",
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        }
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        "Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul."
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          "dregs",
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          "lees",
          "lees"
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          "muddy",
          "muddy"
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
          "word": "syrjóttur"
        },
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
          "word": "moirtiúil"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
          "word": "deascúil"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
          "word": "dríodartha"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
          "word": "drifisceach"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
          "word": "feccioso"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
          "word": "sörjig"
        }
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛɡi"
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  "word": "dreggy"
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          "text": "In the third place, I truly esteem those that are pretty much perfumed and well scented, though I do not care that this perfection should be enclosed in a pulp that is extremely hard and full of dreggy matter, as the amadotte, the citron, and the great winter musk pears.",
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          "text": "Now, I have been in cleaning about two years and I know one thing, cleaning and catering are the dreggiest jobs to be in.",
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          "text": "It was now dark and Heath found himself walking into the dreggiest part of town.",
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        ],
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          "foul",
          "foul"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
      "word": "syrjóttur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
      "word": "moirtiúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
      "word": "deascúil"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
      "word": "dríodartha"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
      "word": "drifisceach"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
      "word": "feccioso"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "containing dregs or lees",
      "word": "sörjig"
    }
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  "word": "dreggy"
}