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Etymology 1

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Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree,[1] and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien,[2] from Old English drēogan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (to hold fast).[3] Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten.

Verb

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dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreeing, simple past and past participle dreed) (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)

  1. (transitive) To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tolerate
  2. (intransitive) To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.
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Etymology 2

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Probably partly:

Doublet of dreich.

Noun

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dree (plural drees)

  1. (chiefly Northumbria, Scotland, archaic) Grief; suffering; trouble.

Etymology 3

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From dreich (adjective).

Adverb

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dree (comparative more dree, superlative most dree)

  1. (Northeast Midlands, Northern England)
    1. Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
    2. Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
  2. (Lancashire, Scotland) Slowly, tediously.

Etymology 4

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See dreich.

Adjective

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dree (comparative dreer, superlative dreest)

  1. Alternative form of dreich
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 dree, v.1, n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  2. ^ drīen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ^ Compare dree, v.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2023; dree, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  4. ^ dree, n.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
  5. ^ drī(e, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  6. ^ drī(e, adj.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  7. ^ dreich, adj.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2023; dreich, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Low German

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German Low German cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dree
    Ordinal : drütt

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

Numeral

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dree

  1. three

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Luxembourgish

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Verb

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dree

  1. second-person singular imperative of dreeën

Plautdietsch

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

Numeral

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dree

  1. three

Scots

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Etymology

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From Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą.

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Verb

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dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreein, simple past dreed, past participle dreed)

  1. to endure, suffer, put up with, undergo

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Yola

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Numeral

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dree

  1. Alternative form of dhree
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Dree deemes.
      Three times.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33