dregs

dregs
Synonyms and related words:
alluvion, alluvium, ash, bones, canaille, cattle, chaff, children of darkness, cinder, clinker, culm, deadwood, deposit, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs of society, dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, garbage, gash, grounds, hogwash, husks, leavings, lees, limbs of Satan, loess, losers, masses, mob, moraine, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, outcasts, pariahs, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation, proletariat, rabble, raff, rags, ragtag and bobtail, raspings, refuse, remains, residue, riffraff, rubbish, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings, silt, sinter, slack, slag, slop, slops, smut, sons of Belial, sons of men, soot, sordes, stubble, sublimate, sweepings, swill, swinish multitude, tares, the bad, the evil, the reprobate, the unrighteous, the wicked, trash, unwashed, vermin, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds

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  • Dregs — may refer to: Sediment in wine, beer, Turkish coffee or other beverage. Dregs of Humanity, an episode of the It s Your Move TV series Audio Dregs, an independent music label Dixie Dregs, a jazz fusion band Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, a post… …   Wikipedia

  • dregs — [ dregz ] noun plural 1. ) the small amount of liquid and solid pieces left in the bottom of a container: dregs of coffee/tea/wine 2. ) INFORMAL the least important or valuable part of something, especially of a group of people: the dregs of… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • dregs — [dregz] pl.n. 〚ME dregges, pl. of dregge < ON dregg, barm, lees < IE * dherēgh, residue: for base see DARK〛 1. the particles of solid matter that settle at the bottom in a liquid; lees 2. the most worthless part [the dregs of society] …   Universalium

  • dregs — [dregz] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old Norse; Origin: dregg] 1.) [plural] a small amount of a drink, sometimes with bits in, left at the bottom of a cup, glass, or bottle 2.) the dregs of society/humanity not polite an offensive expression used to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • dregs — c.1300 (implied in surname Dryngedregges), from O.N. dregg sediment, from P.Gmc. *drag (Cf. O.H.G. trestir, Ger. Trester grapeskins, husks ), from PIE *dher (1) to make muddy. Replaced O.E. cognate dræst, dærst dregs, lees. Figurative use is from …   Etymology dictionary

  • dregs — [n1] sediment deposits, dirt, draff, lees, residue, settlings, slag, waste; concept 260 dregs [n2] bad person loser, outcast, rabble, riffraff, scum, trash; concept 412 …   New thesaurus

  • dregs — ► NOUN 1) the remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment. 2) the most worthless parts: the dregs of society. ORIGIN probably Scandinavian …   English terms dictionary

  • dregs — [dregz] pl.n. [ME dregges, pl. of dregge < ON dregg, barm, lees < IE * dherēgh, residue: for base see DARK] 1. the particles of solid matter that settle at the bottom in a liquid; lees 2. the most worthless part [the dregs of society] 3.… …   English World dictionary

  • dregs — sediment, *deposit, precipitate, lees, grounds …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • dregs — [[t]dre̱gz[/t]] 1) N PLURAL: usu the N (disapproval) The dregs of a liquid are the last drops left at the bottom of a container, together with any solid bits that have sunk to the bottom. Colum drained the dregs from his cup. 2) N PLURAL: usu the …   English dictionary

  • dregs — plural noun 1) the dregs from a bottle of wine Syn: sediment, deposit, residue, accumulation, sludge, lees, grounds, remains; technical residuum 2) the dregs of humanity Syn: scum, refuse, riffraff …   Thesaurus of popular words

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