drasty

Dec. 13th, 2005 07:17 am
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drasty - adj., vile, filthy, worthless.


From drast, an obsolete (Anglo-Saxon) word for dregs or lees. The OED notes that "In several places the s has been misread or misprinted as f, which was perhaps actually the source of drafty."

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