Dreich vs Drench - What's the difference?
dreich | drench |
(Scotland, Northern Ireland) Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 243:
*:It looked a dreich , cold place as you rode by at night, near as lonesome as the old Mill was, and not near as handy.
* 2002', Glasgow's ambassadors receive a '''dreich welcome in Havana — title of article in ''The Scotsman , 14 Nov 2002
* 2004', but driving home at this '''dreich hour and at the end of a difficult shift, she found the ectoplasmic fog unnerving — Susan Hill, ''The Various Haunts of Men (2004) page 4.
* 2008 used in BBC Radio 4 Weather forecast as interchangeable with "dreary/dismal" 4th Nov 2008 12:57
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A draught administered to an animal.
(obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
To soak, to make very wet.
* Dryden
To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
(obsolete, UK) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
As an adjective dreich
is bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary.As a noun drench is
a draught administered to an animal.As a verb drench is
to soak, to make very wet.dreich
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Alternative forms
* dree, dreighAdjective
(en adjective)drench
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) drenchen, from (etyl) . More at drink.Noun
(es)- A drench of wine.
- Give my roan horse a drench .
Verb
- Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.
Etymology 2
Anglo-Saxon dreng warrior, soldier, akin to Icelandic drengr.Noun
(es)- (Burrill)