Dregs

Definition: Dregs

Dregs

Noun

1. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dregs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Bible

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dregs

Commonalty

Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.

Ejection

Empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.

Humility

Lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.

Inutility

Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.

Pain

Labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it; fall on evil days; (adversity); go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, "sup full of horrors".

Remainder

Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.

Taking

Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Uncleanness

Sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag; scum, froth.

Vice

Lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den; gusto picaresco.

Crosswords: Dregs

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Oil-cake and Other Residues except Dregs in Asia (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Oil-Cake and Other Residues except Dregs (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Oil-cake and Other Residues except Dregs in Europe (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Oil-Cake and Other Residues except Dregs Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Oil-Cake and Other Residues except Dregs Export Supplies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Dregs of Society (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Oil-cake and Other Residues except Dregs in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me.

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Economic History

Ireland

In addition to brewers dregs and wastes, Irish importers import significant quantities of soybean and other feed grains. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions using "dregs": brewing dregs and waste ♦ drain the cup of misery to the dregs ♦ drain to the dregs ♦ dregs of cereals ♦ drink smth. to the dregs ♦ drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs ♦ drink to the dregs ♦ oil foots and dregs ♦ the dregs of mankind ♦ the dregs of the society. Additional references.

Albanian

mut (crap, poop, turd), llum (dross, grounds, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scum, scut, sludge, tails, vermin, wash), fundërri (canaille, deposition, feculence, grounds, Lees, ragtag, sediment, vermin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حثالة (refuse, residual, sediment), ‏تفل (frog), ‏رواسب (deposit, foot, grout, leavings, lees, magma, precipitate, residue, sediment, settlings, tartar), ‏بقايا باقية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

утайка (crust, deposit, drains, faeces, feculence, grouts, offscourings, precipitate, precipitation, ragtag, residue, residuum, rinsings, sediment, sludge, warp), остатъци (debris, junk, leftovers, odd-come-shorts, oddments, odds and ends, offal, pickings, remainder, rinsings, trash, waste), отпадъци (carrion, dross, garbage, husks, junk, leavings, litter, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs). (various references)

Chinese 

糟 (spoil, to waste), �" (sediment), 渣 . (various references)

Czech

usazenina (deposit, Lees, residue, sediment), spodina (offscourings, the scum), sedlina (Lees, sediment, settlement), kal (ooze, settlement, sewage, silt, sludge). (various references)

Danish

oliefod(bundfald) (oil foots and dregs), mask af korn (brewing dregs and waste, dregs of cereals), mask (brewer'grains, brewing dregs and waste, distiller's wash, draff, dregs of cereals, hog-wash, pig swill, pig-wash, swill, swillings, wort), bruggerieaffald (brewing dregs and waste, dregs of cereals), baerme (distilling dregs and waste, hog-wash, pig swill, pig-wash, swill, swillings). (various references)

Dutch

droesem of bezinksel van olie (oil foots and dregs), brouwerijafval (brewing dregs and waste, dregs of cereals), bostel (brewer'grains, brewing dregs and waste, distiller's wash, draff, dregs of cereals), afvallen van branderijen (distilling dregs and waste). (various references)

Farsi 

چیزپست وبی ارزش (Rubbish), باقی مانده (Debris, Extant, Scantling, Surplus). (various references)

Finnish

sakka (deposit, grounds, precipitate, sediment), rapa (dirt, mud, slush), poro (grounds, reindeer, sediment), pohjasakka (grounds, lees, sediment), hylkyjoukko (scum). (various references)

French

lie. (various references)

German

Abschaum (scum), bodensatz (deposit, grounds, lees, sediment). (various references)

Greek 

κατακάθι (sediment), κατακαθίσματα (sediment, settlings), μούργα (sediment), υποστάθμη (residuum, sediment, settlings). (various references)

Hebrew 

משקע (deposit, depression, hole, pit, precipitate, residue, sediment, settling, sinking), פסולת (junk, litter, offal, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), עקבת (sediment). (various references)

Hungarian

söpredék (offscourings, rabble, raff, ragtag, riff raff, scum, scurf, sweepings, trash), alj (bed, depth, excrement, grounds, skirt), üledék (bottoms, deposit, deposition, dreg, dross, emptyings, faeces, precipitate, precipitation, residual, residue, sediment, settlings, silt, sludge). (various references)

Indonesian

orang hina-dina (untouchable), endapan (deposit, precipitate, sediment), ampas (less, settlings, trash, waste). (various references)

Italian

sedimento (deposit, ground, Lees, sediment, silt), fondo (back, background, bed, bottom, deep, depth, end, estate, floor, foundation, fund, ground, heart, lowness, nature, profound, property, seat, sole), feccia (Lees, scum). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

沈渣 (sediment, sludge), 残�" (remains, vestiges), �" (feces, refuse, scum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざ�"さい (remains, vestiges), ざ�"し (remains, tragic death, vestiges, violent death), かす (feces, refuse, scum, to be reduced, to change into, to convert to, to impose, to improve, to influence, to lend, to transform), ち�"さ (grit, sediment, sludge). (various references)

Korean 

찌꺼기 (Dreg). (various references)

Manx

drundin (grounds, sediment). (various references)

Norwegian

bunnfall, berme. (various references)

Pig Latin

egsdray.(various references)

Portuguese

sedimento (bottom, deposited sediment, draff, dreg, grain, grounds, grout, handsel, hansel, sediment, silt), ralé (lees, mob, ragtag, riffraff), proscrito (exile, outcast, outlaw), pária (alien, castaway, outcast, pariah, waif), fezes (excreta, lees), exilado (deportee, exile, exiled, fugitive, outcast, outlaw), escória (cinder, dirt, dreg, raffle, refuse, scobs, scoria, scum, slag, spoilage, trash). (various references)

Romanian

drojdie (barm, draff, grounds, Lees, residue, scum, tailing, yeast), zaţ (draff, ground, grounds, matter), scursurã (sewer, tag-rag, valley), reziduuri (foot). (various references)

Russian 

осадок (aftertaste, crust, deposit, faeces, grounds, precipitate, precipitation, residue, residuum, sediment, settling, sludge), подонок (brock, scumbag). (various references)

Scottish

druaip (lees, sediment), driodar, proghan, anabas. (various references)

Spanish

heces (lees, sediment, slop, sweepings). (various references)

Swedish

bottensats (deposit, foots, Lees, sediment, settlings). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งที่ไร้ค่า, กาก (by-product, lees, sludge). (various references)

Turkish

tortu (crust, deposit, deposition, draff, faeces, fecula, feculence, foots, grounds, Lees, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings), süprüntü (brushing, candle-end, dreg, dross, garbage, offscourings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings, sweeps, trumpery), posa (draff, dreg, faeces, feculence, foots, Marc, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings), artık (anymore, at that, discard, dreg, dross, effluent, fag end, hog-wash, leftover, no longer, no more, refuse, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, rest, scraps, shoddy, spoils, tag end, waste), çöp (brushing, chip, crud, discard, garbage, junk, leavings, litter, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, straw, trash, waste). (various references)

Ukrainian

осад (faeces, precipitate, residue, residuum, sediment, settling, sludge), потолоч (canaille, rabble, rag-tag). (various references)

Welsh

sorod (dross, refuse), gwaddod (lees, sediment). (various references)

latax. (various references)

faeces, feces, fecibus, fecis, feculentia, fex, sentina. (various references)

Schlacke. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Dregs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deggs, derg, Dorego, dorigish, draga, Drages, Dragos, dreds, drees, dreugs, drews, dreys, drgw, drigg, drigs, drogs, druges, durges, reggs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dreg, ergs, geds, reds, regs.

-2 letters: eds, erg, ers, ged, red, reg, res, seg, ser.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, es, re.

+1 letter: dirges, edgers, grades, greeds, grides, ridges, surged.

+2 letters: badgers, bedrugs, begirds, bridges, budgers, cadgers, codgers, daggers, dangers, degerms, degrees, desugar, diggers, digress, dingers, dodgers, dogears, doggers, dragees, dredges, drogues, drudges, engirds, fridges, gadders, ganders, gardens, gelders, genders, gerunds, gilders, girders, girdles, gliders, gourdes, graders, grasped, grassed, greased, grossed, groused, grudges, guiders, hedgers, judgers, ledgers, lodgers, nudgers, redbugs, redlegs, regards, regilds, ridgels, sedgier, sparged, sugared, trudges.