See dretch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"To delay; linger; tarry."
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"(obsolete, intransitive) To delay; linger; tarry."
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"To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter."
],
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"move",
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[
"dawdle",
"dawdle"
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"loiter",
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"(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter."
],
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"word": "draitch"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "drich"
}
],
"word": "dretch"
}
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "dretchen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English dretchen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "*dreċċan",
"t": "to draw out, delay, linger"
},
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"name": "inh"
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*drakjaną",
"t": "to draw, pull"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*dʰreǵ-",
"t": "to pull, drag, scratch"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "dratch"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "trekken",
"3": "",
"4": "to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "trecken",
"3": "",
"4": "to draw, trek"
},
"expansion": "German trecken (“to draw, trek”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "trække",
"3": "",
"4": "to draw, pull"
},
"expansion": "Danish trække (“to draw, pull”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "dråk",
"3": "",
"4": "stripe"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian dråk (“stripe”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Swedish",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "rák",
"3": "",
"4": "streak"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic rák (“streak”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dretches",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "dretch (plural dretches)",
"name": "en-noun"
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"An idle wench; a slattern."
],
"links": [
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"idle",
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[
"wench",
"wench"
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"slattern",
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"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"Scottish English"
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"glosses": [
"A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler."
],
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[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"slow",
"slow"
],
[
"dawdler",
"dawdler"
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"(UK dialectal, Scotland) A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"UK",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɛtʃ"
}
],
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{
"word": "draitch"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "drich"
}
],
"word": "dretch"
}
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