dretchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɛtʃ

語源 1

From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from 古期英語 dreċċan (“to vex, irritate, trouble, torment, torture, oppress, afflict”), from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to torment”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrag-, *dʰragʰ- (“to bother, torment”). Cognate with Russian раздража́ть (razdražátʹ, “to irritate”), Sanskrit द्राघते (drāghate, “to exert oneself, be tired, torment”).

動詞

dretch (三人称単数 現在形 dretches, 現在分詞 dretching, 過去形および過去分詞形 dretched)

1. (transitive) To vex; grill; trouble; oppress.

語源 2

From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from 古期英語 *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”).

別の表記

• draitch, drich (Scotland)

動詞

dretch (三人称単数 現在形 dretches, 現在分詞 dretching, 過去形および過去分詞形 dretched)

1. (intransitive) To delay; linger; tarry.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter.

名詞

dretch (複数形 dretches)

1. An idle wench; a slattern.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler.