Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Dreich

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dreich
(dre·ech) Dialect, chiefly Scot -adj.
1. (intr.) drab.
2. (tr.) dreary (referring to weather or a sermon).
3. often leads to a state of being drookit; grey.

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It would be great if you’d include the phonetics too so that we could pronounce the words correctly [well, at least closely ;-]

Clifford:
I’ve made an attempt to show pronunciation under each of the terms, directly preceding the definition.
Does that not help?

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