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drecky

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /ˈdɹɛki/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛki

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adj

Meaning 1

trashy, worthless

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cruddy, trashy, dreckish, valueless, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, under par, woeful, wretched, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cullionly, draffish, draffy, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, worthless, worth nothing, wutless

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From dreck + -y. Related to German dreckig (“dirty, trashy”).