dreggish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dreg +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

dreggish (comparative more dreggish, superlative most dreggish)

  1. Foul with lees; feculent.
    • 1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick:
      his Urin was Pale, crude, dreggish, and turbid, made at pretty long intervals , and in very small quantities

References[edit]

“dreggish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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