dreich

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing: unnecessarily verbose; long-winded.

   “So Alec showed her the letter, 'twas long and dreich and went on and on; […]”

2. sıfat Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.

   “VVhen thou an' I vvere young an' ſkiegh, / An' ſtable-meals at Fairs vvere driegh, / Hovv thou vvad prance, an' ſnore, an' ſkriegh, / An' tak the road!”

3. sıfat Bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.

   “But he's lying i' such dree poverty,—and niver a friend to go near him,—niver a person to speak a kind word t' him.”

4. sıfat suitably serious or solemn
5. sıfat of a person: patient, stoic, tolerant, resolute
6. sıfat Slow, sluggish; specifically, of a person: tending to delay or procrastinate (especially when paying for something).

   “What think ye o' yon bonny hill yonder, lifting its brow to the moon? […] [M]aybe we will win there the night yet, God sain us, though our minny [a horse] here's rather driegh in the upgang.”

7. sıfat Of a person: having a dejected or serious appearance or mood; dour, gloomy, moody, morose, sullen.

   “There they are that were capering on their prancing nags four days since, and they are now ganging as driegh and sober as oursells the day.”

8. sıfat Of a task: laborious, tedious, troublesome; hence, needing concentration to understand; intricate.

   “Right above your head some thing towered up with branching arms in the flow of the lights; and you saw that it was a cross of stone, overlaid with curlecues, strange, dreich signs, like the banners of the Roman robbers of men whom you'd preached against in Zion last night.”

9. sıfat Chiefly of rain: without pause or stop; continuous, incessant.

   “So, after two hours' running downhill, we came out in the level valley at Glashütte. It was raining now, a thick dree rain.”

10. sıfat Of weather: dreary, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.).

    “To be sure, t' winter's been a dree season, and thou'rt, maybe, in the right on't to make a late start.”

11. sıfat Of a person: negotiating forcefully; driving a hard bargain.
12. sıfat Of a place (especially a hill or mountain): difficult to get through or reach; inaccessible.
13. isim A tedious or troublesome task; also, the most tedious or troublesome part of a task.
14. isim Bleakness, gloom; specifically, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.) weather.