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adj
Alternative form of dreich.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, alternative
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adv
Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
Qualifier: Northeast Midlands
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adv
Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
Qualifier: Northeast Midlands
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adv
Slowly, tediously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
Qualifier: Lancashire
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noun
Grief; suffering; trouble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Northumbria, Scotland, archaic
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verb
To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
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Synonyms: abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take, take sitting down, thole, tolerate, undergang, undergo
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verb
To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
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History
See dreich.
From dreich (adjective).
Probably partly: * derived from the verb (see etymology 1); and * borrowed from Scots dree, or derived from its etymon Middle English dri, drie, dregh, dreghe (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”), possibly from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”), from Old English *drēog, *drēoȝ, dreoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly: ** shortened from Old English gedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective); and ** influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above). Doublet of dreich.
Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree, and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrewgh- (“to hold fast”). Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten. Cognates * Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”) * Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”) * Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”)
