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   What does dreich mean in English?

   • According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, the adjective “dreich” refers to “dreary, cheerless, bleak” weather but may be used in other contexts too. For example, a long-winded speech, tedious journey or tardy individual can all be thought of as dreich.

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   What is a dreich day?

   • Pictured above on a dreich day are the ruins of Ardvreck Castle on the eastern banks of Loch Assynt in Sutherland, Scotland. | Elena Sgarabotto from Getty Images According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, the adjective “dreich” refers to “dreary, cheerless, bleak” weather but may be used in other contexts too.

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   What is a dry dreich?

   • “At the kirk, whan the minister’s dreich an dry”. Dry, however, is the opposite of the way people use the word as the ideal way to describe damp, dismal, Scottish weather, like Alexander Gray in Any Man’s Life (1924): “In the cauld dreich days when it’s nicht on the back o’ four”.

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   What is an example of a dreich?

   • For example, a long-winded speech, tedious journey or tardy individual can all be thought of as dreich. “Dreich” functions like most adjectives we are used to e.g. what a dreich day we’re having with all this rain.

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   historically regarded as a dreich corner of Britain, Scotland's very name comes from the Greek word for “dark”

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   Oct 3, 2023 · According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, the adjective “dreich” refers to “dreary, cheerless, bleak” weather but may be used in other contexts too. For example, a long-winded...

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   Jul 20, 2009 · DREICH adj tedious, dull. This word is anything but dull. Dreichness could even inspire fear. Alexander Montgomerie’s poem The Cherrie and the Slae (1585) tells us: “The craig was vgly, stay (steep) and dreiche,...I was effrayit to mount so heich”.

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   Sep 26, 2023 · In English: “Dunk your hand in the water and see if it’s cold.” DREICH. Adjective: Dreary; dull; gloomy. Take from this what you will, but ‘dreich’ has been voted the “most iconic” Scots word several times. In a sentence: “It’s awfy dreich oot there the day.” In English: “It’s awfully dreary outside today.” FANKLE

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   The basic meaning is long-drawn-out, protracted, hence tedious, wearisome. [driç] 1. In gen. contexts: protracted, dreary, hard to bear. Sc. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona x.: I think you will say yourself it is a dreich business. Edb. 1866 J. Smith Poems 40: Sic dreich wark. . . . For lang I tholed an' fendit.

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   The Scots language word that has been voted ‘most iconic Scots word’ is the word dreich. Dreich, which is recorded in Scots since the 15th century, and was also once used in Middle English, originally described something that was dreary, tiresome or wearisome.

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   Jun 2, 2024 · dreich (comparative mair dreich, superlative maist dreich) persistent, continuous, relentless; slow, tardy; dismal, dowie, dreary, bleak