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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English dræstig, equivalent to drast + -y. Noun component from Old English dærstan, dresten (“dregs”).
Adjective
drasty
- filthy; worthless
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio lxxix, recto, column 1, line
12:
Thy drasty rymynge is not worth a torde- Thy drossy rhyming is not worth a turd
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