English-Thai Dictionary

dreg

N ตะกอน  ขี้ตะกอน  กาก  เศษ ของเหลือ  ta-kon

 

dregs

N กาก  ตะกอน  sediment lees kak

 

dregs

N สิ่ง ที่ ไร้ค่า  sing-ti-rai-ka

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DREGGINESS

n.[from dreggy. ] Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

 

DREGGISH

a.Full of dregs; foul with lees; feculent.

 

DREGGY

a.[See Dregs. ] Containing dregs or lees; consisting of dregs; foul; muddy; feculent.

 

DREGS

n.plu. [Gr. ] 1. The sediment of liquors; lees; grounds; feculence; any foreign matter of liquors that subsides to the bottom of a vessel.
2. Waste or worthless matter; dross; sweepings; refuse. Hence, the most vile and despicable part of men; as the dregs of society.
Dreg, in the singular, is found in Spenser, but is not now used.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DREG

Dreg, n. Etym: [Prob. from Icel. dregg; akin to Sw. drägg, cf. Icel.& Sw. draga to draw. Cf. Draw. ]

 

Defn: Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

 

Note: Used formerly (rarely ) in the singular, as by Spenser and Shakespeare, but now chiefly in the plural.

 

DREGGINESS

DREGGINESS Dreg "gi *ness, n.

 

Defn: Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

 

DREGGISH

DREGGISH Dreg "gish, a.

 

Defn: Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.

 

DREGGY

DREGGY Dreg "gy, a.

 

Defn: Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dregs

dregs |dregz drɛɡz | ▶plural noun the remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment or grounds: coffee dregs. • the most worthless part or parts of something: the dregs of society. DERIVATIVES dreg gy |ˈdregē |adjective ORIGIN Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish drägg (plural ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

dregs

dregs |drɛgz | ▶plural noun the remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment: coffee dregs. • the most worthless part or parts of something: the dregs of society. DERIVATIVES dreggy adjective ORIGIN Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish drägg (plural ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dregs

dregs plural noun 1 the dregs from a bottle of wine: sediment, deposit, residue, accumulation, sludge, lees, grounds, remains; technical residuum. 2 the dregs of humanity: scum, refuse, riffraff, outcasts, deadbeats; underclass, untouchables, lowest of the low, great unwashed, hoi polloi; informal trash.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dregs

dregs plural noun 1 the dregs from a bottle of wine: sediment, deposit, residue, remains, accumulation; slops, sludge; scum, debris, dross, detritus, refuse; lees, grounds, scourings; technical precipitate, sublimate, residuum, settlings, alluvium; literary draff; archaic grouts. 2 the dregs of humanity: scum, refuse; rabble, vermin; down-and-outs, good-for-nothings, outcasts, deadbeats, tramps, vagrants; the underclass, the untouchables, the lowest of the low, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi, the ragtag (and bobtail ), the canaille; informal riff-raff, trash, dossers.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dregs

dregs /dreɡz /名詞 〖複数扱い 〗1 (飲み物の底に沈む )かす, くず .2 くずのような人, 役立たず ▸ the dregs of society 社会のくず