WORD FOR THE DAY: DREK / DRECK

MW | 6/28/17

[Louis Foxwell]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

DREK/DRECK

[drek]

hear it pronounced

noun

something that is of very bad quality : trash or rubbish

[Louis Foxwell]

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[SkyDancer]

CNN news is dreck.

[Jamestown1630]

“Aw Jeez - Not this dreck again!”

[Signalman]

Dreck is a Yiddish word which literally means “sh*t”.

[Louis Foxwell]

CNN, the proud (see Zucker) publisher of bona fide, certified (see O’Keeefe) dreck, is having a tough day. Could not happen to a more deserving clique of schlockmeisters.

[bigbob]

Well, maybe MSNBC, which is drek too.

[Grimmy]

Discourse is how the dreck catch speech transmitted ideological diseases.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yiddish drek & German dreck, from Middle High German drec; akin to Old English threax rubbish.

Synonyms: chaff, deadwood, debris, garbage (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste

[Ciaphas Cain]

I learned this word from the pages of MAD Magazine at the age of nine :-)

[Louis Foxwell]

A very strange comment, not without merit, in fact, likely of sustantial merit, if only it were comprehensible.

[Louis Foxwell]

An excellent age to learn new words, and MAD, a most worthy cultural icon, in its time.

[Rembrandt]

Her Thighness is now, and always has been, a piece of
drek!

[Grimmy]

Incomprehensibility fair much demerits it, don’t it?

Lets see if I can explain it more better.

You see? It’s like this:

Without discourse, the drek get no indoc for the speech transmitted diseases.

[Karliner]

Dreck smells better than California dems.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Democrat party’s a wreck
A cesspool of socialist dreck
Bernie and Liz
And that’s all that there is
There’s no heir apparent on deck

[Louis Foxwell]

She whose name shall not be mentioned is indeed classic drek, in high dudgeon.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dudgeon
Play the entry. It is deligtful.

[Louis Foxwell]

I thought I had it. Still think so. A mighty parable if a bit parabolic.

[Louis Foxwell]

If drek could smell could it also taste?

[Louis Foxwell]

Quite the poet you are. A nice bit of limerick.

You are entitled to the prestigious limerick award, irregularly awarded.

[jazminerose]

Dreck is a great word and the essence of most political speeches. But, I’m just here to thank you for giving me “effluvium”.