1 April 2015

dreg

[dreg]

noun

1. dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
2. Usually, dregs. the least valuable part of anything:
the dregs of society.
3. a small remnant; any small quantity.
4. (Brit, slang) a despicable person

Origin
Middle English, Old Norse
1250-1300; Middle English < Old Norse dreg yeast (plural dreggjar dregs); cognate with Old Swedish dräg dregs
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Examples from the web for dreg
– Spring was dominated by the coverage of the war, summer by the dregs of reality.
– His people like him who embrace a lack of imagination that are the dregs of industrial design.
– We assembled our dregs of cash, bought one of the new locks and went to work.

Today’s aphorism

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

– Jack Kerouac

On this day

1 April – April Fool’s Day.

1 April 1918 – the Royal Air Force is founded in England. It’s first planes were the Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel, Bristol F2B fighters, and Royal Aircraft Factory’s SE5s, which were used during World War I.

1 April 1999 – Europe adopts the Euro as a common currency.

1 April 2012 – Aung San Suu Kyi wins a Burma by-election. Suu Kyi had been under house arrest for around 20 years following the military take-over of Burma in 1990.