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dreggy, a.|ˈdrɛgɪ|
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
Abounding in dregs or fæces; of the nature or character of dregs; feculent; foul, impure; turbid, polluted.
c1440Promp. Parv. 131/2 Dreggy..or fulle of drestys, feculentus. 1574Newton Health Mag. 48 Grapes leave much feculent and dreggie matter in the body. 1657Physical Dict., The thinner parts are evaporated, and the thicker remain black and dreggy. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 105 Either Draggy or..mingled with the Settlings of the Cask. 1883Standard 19 May 6/2 Tallow..fine, 42s...dark dreggy lots, 39s.
b. transf. and fig.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 59 Twenty thousand of these dreggy lees of Libertines. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 880 This earth..the lowest and most dreggy part of the universe! 1741E. Poston Pratler (1747) I. 33 Old Age, or the dreggy Part of Life. 1862Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 249 A dreggy hybrid of the basest bloods of Europe.
Hence ˈdreggily adv.; ˈdregginess.
1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 778 Having but little earthy dragginesse and drossy refuse. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 51 The dregginess of the Ferment. 1876Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xxxv. 638 Dim city edges that dip drearily and dreggily to the brink. |