Definitions for dregs

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Spelling: [dreg]
IPA: /drɛg/

Dregs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in dregs (degrs).

Definitions for dregs

noun

  1. dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
  2. Usually, dregs. the least valuable part of anything:
  3. a small remnant; any small quantity.

Origin of dregs

1250-1300; Middle English Old Norse dreg yeast (plural dreggjar dregs); cognate with Old Swedish dräg dregs

Examples for dregs

They are not interested in the dregs from my stash of clothes.

The pimps of proxenetism are recruited from the dregs of society.

The sins of man are generally the dregs of his brute ancestry.

All the good stuff—the Oscar bait—comes out in November or December; the dregs are reserved for January and February.

But Della drained her draught of joy to the dregs, and then tilted her cup anew.

The fish dies and is brought back to life—along with grandpa—with the dregs of a bag of chips.

Having drunk the Clinton Global Initiative to the dregs, a hopey-changey hangover ensues.

But Philip had kept him apart, had banked him off, and yet drained him to the dregs.

There cling to him still the limitations and dregs of his brute life.

Malbone, greedy of emotion, was drinking to the dregs a passion that could have no to-morrow.

Word Value for dregs
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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