[Fictionary] dreich ballot

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

Here's the ballot!  As always, express your intent by casting one
two-point vote and one one-point vote, and feel free to write stories
or poetry, which I will gleefully reprint.  The deadline is midnight,
Saturday the 7th.

- Ranjit


dreich [drES] n. (law) -- The tract directly under the boughs of a
tree, where its fruits first touch the ground on falling.
(Law-french, fr. MFr. dreyche 'windfall', dreycher 'to shake a tree',
prob. of Gmc. origin, cf. Engl. thresh, Ger. dreschen.)

dreich [drosh] - adj. - mundane, boring (student slang coined at the
Staatliches Bauhaus)

dreich - (dray'-eech) n. - A newborn child whose sex has not yet been
publicly announced.

dreich, n. Heavy four-wheeled bullock wagon. [Punjabi _draik_ <
Persian _dahi-kai_ (cart) < Arabic _dehiyya_ (cart).]  Pron: /draik/

dreich: (noun; from Yiddish) (d'-r-eye-k)  A piece of garbage.

dreich, v. /drix/ (Gaelic draiochd, draidhochd, the practice or skill
of working with the supernatural) (Scots) To solve a problem with the
aid of the supernatural.

dreich [ dreekh ] adj.-  (Scotland) dreary: describes weather that is
dull and depressing [Old English gedrēog "patient, serious" <
Germanic]

dreich (dräikh) - n. - dragon [EGael > MGer > MEng]

dreich (long I, ch as in stitch) - n. (Kentish dialect) - a billy-goat
with sawed off horns.

driech, n.  pronounced "drike":  from German, a composite of drei,
three, and eich, oak; together, a small copse.  Therefore, something
small and insignificant.  Often used to describe chatter.