dreck

[drek] /drɛk/

noun, Slang.

excrement; dung.

worthless trash; junk.

Also, drek.

Origin

1920-25; < Yiddish drek; cognate with German Dreck filth; compare Old English threax, Old Norse threkkr excrement

Examples from the web for dreck

Upon being presented with such dreck, the teacher has a range of responses from which to choose.
More literate, but equally boring because it's the same old dreck.
But by jeepers there is a lot of unforgivable dreck on the nation's reading lists.
However, despite your obvious good sense this post is mostly dreck, unfortunately for the same reasons.
It was a practically criminal offense to my brain, eyes and ears to witness that horrifying dreck.
Besides, it's real tv, not some real housewives of jersey shore who bake cupcakes made from insects dreck.

British Dictionary definitions for dreck

dreck

/drɛk/

noun

(slang, mainly US) rubbish; trash

Derived Forms

drecky, adjective

Word Origin

from Yiddish drek filth, dregs

Word Origin and History for dreck

"filth, trash," 1922, from Yiddish drek (German dreck), from Middle High German drec, from Proto-Germanic *threkka (cf. Old English þreax "rubbish," Old Frisian threkk), perhaps connected to Greek skatos "dung," Latin stercus "excrement," from PIE root *(s)ker- "to cut" (see shear (v.)).

Slang definitions & phrases for dreck

dreck

modifier

: no point in my keeping every drek album/ an opponent of the ticky-tacky world of drecktech architecture

noun

Wretched trash; garbage, junk, shit: the ugliness, dreck and horror of New York City/ They may bring with them a pile of overfinished drek/ the sad glitter of desert drek

[1920s+; fr Yiddish, ''feces'']