"dree one's weird" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: drees one's weird [present, singular, third-person], dreeing one's weird [participle, present], dreed one's weird [participle, past], dreed one's weird [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} dree one's weird (third-person singular simple present drees one's weird, present participle dreeing one's weird, simple past and past participle dreed one's weird)
  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To submit to one's fate. Tags: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-dree_one's_weird-en-verb-0sagAfiw Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Northern England English, Scottish English

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for dree one's weird meaning in English (1.9kB)

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