Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreigh
Literary usage of Dreigh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"Can any of your correspondents give me any information respecting an Irish duke
whose family name was dreigh, and who was alive, I believe, in 1700? ..."
2. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc. by David Herd, Sidney Gilpin, George Paton (1870)
"dreigh, flow, keeping at a ... Hence an ill payer of his debts, we call, dreigh.
Tedious. Dribs, drops. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"dreigh, difficult, hard to travel, tedious, prolix, dry. Hech, sirs! but the
sermon was sair dreigh.' —GALT. Dreich at the thought and dour at the delivery. ..."
4. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"A dreigh drink is better than a dry sermon. ie, anything is better than a dry
sermon, for, of course, a dreigh drink is no drink at all. ..."
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