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"4": "",
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},
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"4": "excrement, manure"
},
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"2": "drek",
"3": "",
"4": "dung; semi-liquid filth; mud"
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"expansion": "Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”)",
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"4": "dirt; filth"
},
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"3": "",
"4": "dung, manure"
},
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},
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"word": "drecky"
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"ref": "2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in New York Times",
"text": "Unfortunately, the conversation soon turned into a late-night freshman-year dorm-room debate, as he stumbled into a controversy of his own making by using Holocaust deniers and their appalling falsehoods as an example of how much dreck should be allowed on the platform.",
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"(informal) Trash; worthless merchandise."
],
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{
"word": "junk"
},
{
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{
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{
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},
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"3": "",
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{
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"2": "drek",
"3": "",
"4": "dung; semi-liquid filth; mud"
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"name": "cog"
},
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"3": "",
"4": "dirt; filth"
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"name": "cog"
},
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"3": "",
"4": "dung, manure"
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"etymology_text": "From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), 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 Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).",
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"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"ref": "2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in New York Times",
"text": "Unfortunately, the conversation soon turned into a late-night freshman-year dorm-room debate, as he stumbled into a controversy of his own making by using Holocaust deniers and their appalling falsehoods as an example of how much dreck should be allowed on the platform.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Trash; worthless merchandise."
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"Trash",
"trash"
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[
"worthless",
"worthless"
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"(informal) Trash; worthless merchandise."
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"word": "trash"
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