dreg

Etymology
Borrowed from, from (whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from ; see also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) Sediment in a liquid.
 * 2)  The lowest and most worthless part of something; scum.

Quotations

 * 1768:O! be the cup of joy to thee consign'd, / Of joy unmix'd, without a dreg behind! &mdash; William Hayley, from 'On the Fear of Death, An Epistle to a Lady, 1768', in Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects 1818.
 * 1910: Fear and trauma may drain to the last dreg the dischargeable nervous energy, and, therefore, the greatest possible exhaustion may be produced by fear and trauma. George W. Crile. in an address delivered at the Massachusetts General Hospital 15 Oct 1910, collected in The Origin and Nature of Emotions
 * 1910: Fear and trauma may drain to the last dreg the dischargeable nervous energy, and, therefore, the greatest possible exhaustion may be produced by fear and trauma. George W. Crile. in an address delivered at the Massachusetts General Hospital 15 Oct 1910, collected in The Origin and Nature of Emotions

Translations

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 * Tagalog: laro
 * Welsh: gwaddod,


 * Esperanto: feĉo
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 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: gwaddod,