drearihead
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English dreryhed; equivalent to dreary + -head (“hood”).
Noun[edit]
drearihead (uncountable)
- (obsolete) sadness; dreariness
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- suddein feare and ghastly drerihedd