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Dreep vs Dreed - What's the difference?

dreep | dreed |

As verbs the difference between dreep and dreed

is that dreep is to lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance while dreed is past tense of dree.

dreep

English

Alternative forms

* dreap

Verb

(en verb)
  • (Scotland) To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 77:
  • *:If ye could not do the next jump ye just dreeped down and ran along the ground and up the next one.

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    dreed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dree)

    • Anagrams

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    dree

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dreen, dreghen, dreogen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

    Verb

    (d)
  • To suffer; bear; thole; endure; put up with; undergo.
  • * 1885 , Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 8:
    • And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree .
  • To endure; brook; be able to do or continue.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (now, chiefly, dialectal) Long; large; ample; great.
  • (now, chiefly, dialectal) Great; of serious moment.
  • (now, chiefly, dialectal) Tedious; wearisome; tiresome.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) dreghe, dregh, from dregh, . See above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (now, chiefly, dialectal) Length; extension; the longest part.

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