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DREGGY

Definition: DREGGY

DREGGY

Adjective

1. Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: DREGGY

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Uncleanness	Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: DREGGY

English words defined with "DREGGY": Draffy. (references)

Modern Translation: DREGGY

Language		Translations for "DREGGY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		с утайка (mothery), мътен (cloudy, dim, feculent, fishy, muddy, roily, sludgy, thick, turbid, unclear). (various references)

Manx		drundinagh (sedimentary), drowagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eggydray

Portuguese		turvo (blear, dim, dimmish, feculent, foul, milky, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid). (various references)

Russian		содержащий осадок или нечистоты, мутный (cloudy, feculent, roily, thick, turbid). (various references)

Spanish		de hez. (various references)

Ukrainian		каламутний (cloudy, muddy, puddly, roily). (various references)

Vietnamese		có cặn, đầy cặn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: DREGGY

Misspellings
	"DREGGY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Degg, degy, diregy, draggy, drigg, droggy, druggy, preggy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: DREGGY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-r-y"
	-1 letter: gyred.
	-2 letters: dreg, dyer, edgy, eggy, grey, gyre, yegg.
	-3 letters: dey, dry, dye, egg, erg, ged, gey, red, reg, rye.
	-4 letters: de, ed, er, re, ye.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-r-y"
	+1 letter: doggery, raggedy.
	+2 letters: gadgetry, gorgedly, raggedly, ruggedly.
	+3 letters: gargoyled.
	+5 letters: aggrievedly, ballyragged, bullyragged, degradingly, demagoguery, skulduggery.
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Alternative Orthography: DREGGY

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 45 47 47 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.. .-. . --. --. -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01000101 01000111 01000111 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#69 &#71 &#71 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0045 0047 0047 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

385239414159

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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