Dreich

'dreich' (meaning dull or dreary) when referring to that city. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These actors who – along with their enrapturing co-stars, Patricia Neal, Taylor, the luminous Ingrid Bergman, whose face I wanted to reach through the screen to touch – inspired a hunger for Hollywood biographies and autobiographies that continues to this, incalculably more dreich and dreary day. ❋ Lucy Mangan (2010)

The sixpence it cost to be rid of their children, particularly on dreich winter Saturdays, was money well spent. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

He thought Scotland much like Baltic Poland in weather, if not landscape—drawn-out rains, mists and damp, cold, dreich days with an absence of light. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

Perhaps it's the yarn - it very grey and dreich, and just a little depressing. ❋ Cazzab (2008)

He concluded that dreich, that good old Scottish standby, was far too mild for the scale of awfulness. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

Cloudscapes of great beauty highlighted the four-seasons-in-one-day phenomenon that was called weather in Scotland, but often it was dreich for days, sometimes weeks, on end. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

A Scottish word to describe the weather is dreich! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like Baum's Kansas, everything about her world is grey: the dialogue is leaden; the skies are dreich; it is always icily cold; and clothing is tattered and dirty. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kudos to her for heading north on a dreich day, especially having spent the previous few days reading the Sharps longlist. ❋ DAVID BISHOP (2008)

This weekend, in the last gasp of our dreich summer, I went to Morecambe. ❋ Jes (2008)

I would think it would be a bit dreich in winter, and the nearest Tesco is a 60 mile round trip, eek! ❋ Spinningfishwife (2007)

Pretty enough in the summer, but grim and dreich on a cold November evening. ❋ McDermid, Val (2003)

If he had been told on that dreich first Monday he turned up to matriculate that by the middle of fourth year he'd still not have had sex but would have had an indie-chart hit single, he'd probably have taken the deal. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

Second term is also post-Christmas, making it the most miserable, cold and dreich in any year, let alone your fourth. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

Up the River Burglary with violent assault: just the thing for a dreich Thursday morning. ❋ Rankin, Ian, 1960- (1992)

Dandy Jim, the packman, was a young fellow who wanted more than evil weather and a dreich, black night to depress him. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

It's a dreich [day] ootside ❋ Mr.meester (2005)

as [applied] to the above [statement] [the weather] is dreich ❋ Aye Yer Maw (2006)

[mad] - [look] [outside] it's really dreich ❋ RawrINomYou (2010)

It's [a wee bit] Dreich [outside] [today]. ❋ LordViper (2017)

it was a [dreich] [day] ❋ Charles Gordon (2003)

That [fart] has left my pants a bit [dreich] [Ken]? ❋ Favol (2022)

1. "Sadly, the weather is pretty [dreich] today" 2. Poser: "You've listened to the new [Mare] Cognitum album? It's pretty dreich." [Trve Kvlt] Elitist: "Only Celestial Slumber are dricht (sic), get your facts straight!" ❋ Celestial Slumber (2018)