Dretch vs Drench - What's the difference?
dretch | drench |
To vex; grill; trouble; oppress.
To delay; linger; tarry.
To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter.
An idle wench; a slattern.
A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler. 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 verbs the difference between dretch and drench
is that dretch is to vex; grill; trouble; oppress while drench is to soak, to make very wet.As nouns the difference between dretch and drench
is that dretch is an idle wench; a slattern while drench is a draught administered to an animal.dretch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from (etyl) .Verb
(es)Etymology 2
From (etyl) dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(es)Noun
(dretches)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)