Crossword clues for dregs
dregs
- Worst of the worst
- Bottom-of-barrel contents
- The most worthless part
- Settled matter
- Last of the wine
- Basest portion
- Wine settlings
- Stuff on the bottom
- Stuff at the bottom of the barrel
- Societal outcasts
- Decanter residue
- Coffee grounds
- Bottom-of-barrel stuff
- Barrel bottom stuff
- Winery leftovers
- Wine-bottle residue
- Wine-barrel residue
- Wine remnants
- Wine barrel remnants
- They've settled inside
- Stuff settled at the bottom of a drink
- Steve Morse's Dixie ___
- Sediment layer
- Sediment in liquid
- Sediment at the bottom
- Remains at the bottom
- Oliver's leavings = Craig's _____
- Hardly the crème de la crème
- Hardly the choice parts
- Drink remnants
- Coffeepot residues
- Bottoms of wine barrels
- Bottom bits
- Remains in the bottle
- Last sip bits
- Wine sediments
- Hardly the creme de la creme
- Grounds
- Lees
- Worthless parts
- Wine residue
- Bottom of the barrel
- Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff
- Leftovers
- Bottom-of-the-bottle stuff
- Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
- Least desirable parts
- Sordor
- Most worthless part
- Sediment particles
- Undesirable leavings
- Residue or remains
- Last licks
- Sediments
- Leavings
- Settlings
- Every other bit extracted, darker gas remains
- What's at the bottom of the bottle, for example, doctor's swallowed
- Remaining sediment
- Dross, sediment
- Doctor, say, drawn to singular contents of used bottle?
- Doctor, for example, initially studying remains
- Worthless stuff
- Wine cask sediment
- Lowest level
- Barrel scrapings
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300 (implied in surname Dryngedregges), from Old Norse dregg "sediment," from Proto-Germanic *drag- (cognates: Old High German trestir, German Trester "grapeskins, husks"), from PIE *dher- (1) "to make muddy." Replaced Old English cognate dræst, dærst "dregs, lees." Figurative use is from 1530s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (''collectively'') The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. 2 (context figuratively the dregs English) The worst and lowest part of something.
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Usage examples of "dregs".
Calumet Street enters a slum where dregs settle to a small Skid Row, no less pitiable than the massive human swamps in New York, London, Moscow, Chicago, Calcutta.
Chapter Twenty Four: The Dregs of the Cup Saladin looked at them, but gave them no greeting.
Say, Franks, are you prepared to drink the dregs of that cup I promised you?
Hari swiftly learned that he was safer amon, the dregs of the Mission District than he was with his father.
Leaning back, she emptied the dregs of cha over his boot, smiled, looked up at him, smiled again, saying nothing.
I, who had thrown over the last weak dregs of Christian belief long ago, should care what a passel of pretentious, self-important priests thought or how they occupied their idle days seemed a peculiar absurdity, even to me.
Most of the boys were already stripping armor, and the general ordered a cohort to go and finish off the dregs, you know.
Diet convenes, and we from the Outer Systems may find ourselves eating the half-dead dregs, which would be unfortunate.
He sucked in a deep gulp of the scented air, conscious of a wisp of an idea crouching forlornly in the dregs of his brain.
The dregs of the dream rinsed around the base of my mind, seeking connection with something more substantial.
Wardani had in any case retreated behind her sunlenses the moment she sat down, and Schneider was brooding intently on the dregs in his coffee cup.
He was all sweaty, his hair was rumpled, and someone had dumped the dregs of the wine pot over his head.
He swirled the dregs, staring into the cup like a conjureman of the old religion who could read fortunes from such leavings.