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From dreg +‎ -y.

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dreggy (comparative dreggier, superlative dreggiest)

  1. Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul.
    • 1837 June, “The American Quarterly Review: March and June 1837”, in Horticulture, volume XXI, page 376:
      In the third place, I truly esteem those that are pretty much perfumed and well scented, though I do not care that this perfection should be enclosed in a pulp that is extremely hard and full of dreggy matter, as the amadotte, the citron, and the great winter musk pears.
    • 2005, Ola West, A Clean Week[1], page 21:
      Now, I have been in cleaning about two years and I know one thing, cleaning and catering are the dreggiest jobs to be in.
    • 2008, Rob Love, A Ballad of Love and War, iUniverse, page 185:
      It was now dark and Heath found himself walking into the dreggiest part of town.

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