dreckyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From dreck +‎ -y. Related to German dreckig (“dirty, trashy”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɛki/
• 韻: -ɛki

形容詞

drecky (comparative dreckier, superlative dreckiest)

1. trashy, worthless
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

     She hated to think of her father kneeling beneath his workbench and locating that penciled heart, hated the idea of Don Armour’s drecky insinuations entering her father’s prudish ears, hated to imagine how keenly it offended a man of such discipline and privacy to learn that Don Armour had been roaming and poking through his house at will.

   • 2011, Thomas Adams and Yves Smith, FCIC Report Misses Central Issue: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?:

     And lenders still would suffer negative consequences for selling a bad product, even if they could get away with it for a while, such as loss of reputation due to inferior deal performance, losses on retained interests, and poor pricing for the drecky mortgages.

同意語

• (of poor quality): crummy, cruddy, tenth-rate, worthless, trashy, two-bit, manky
• (godawful): crappy, shitty, grody, lousy, grotty, miserable

関連する語

• dreckish

アナグラム

• Deryck