dretch

Meanings

Plural: dretches

Verb

To vex; grill; trouble; oppress.
To delay; linger; tarry.
To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter.

Noun

An idle wench; a slattern.
A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English dreċċan (“to vex, irritate, trouble, torment, torture, oppress, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to torment”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrag-, *dʰragʰ- (“to bother, torment”). Cognate with Russian раздража́ть (razdražátʹ, “to irritate”), Sanskrit द्राघते (drāghate, “to exert oneself, be tired, torment”).

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