dreggy

[ dreg-ee ]

adjective

, dreg·gi·er, dreg·gi·est.

1. abounding in or like dregs; filthy; muddy.

dreggy

/ ˈdrɛɡɪ /

adjective

1. like or full of dregs

Other Words From

• dreggi·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dreggy¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See dreg, -y ¹

Example Sentences

Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them.

From Literature

This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot.

From Literature

Sandy had no job and lived in a downscale apartment in a dreggy section of town.

From Salon

But I cannot believe that the mountain stock ever received this dreggy mixture from the Shires.

From Project Gutenberg

It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism."

From Time Magazine Archive

Related Words

• contaminated
• crummy
• disheveled
• dusty
• filthy
• greasy
• grimy
• messy
• muddy
• murky
• nasty
• polluted
• sloppy
• stained
• unkempt