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English
- dryte (15 th–17 th centuries), drytt (15 th–16 th centuries)
Etymology
From Middle English driten, from Old English drītan, from Proto-West Germanic *drītan, from Proto-Germanic *drītaną. Cognate with Dutch drijten, Old Norse dríta, Norwegian drite, and Low German drieten; compare English dirt, Scots drite, and Middle English drit.
Pronunciation
Verb
drite (third-person singular simple present drites, present participle driting, simple past drote or drate or drit, past participle dritten)
- (intransitive, obsolete except in dialects) To defecate.
Synonyms
References
- “drite, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse dríta, from Proto-Germanic *drītaną.
Verb
drite (imperative drit, present tense driter, passive drites, simple past dret or dreit, past participle dritet or dritt)
- to defecate
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From the verb drita from Old Norse dríta.
Pronunciation
Noun
drite f (definite singular drita, indefinite plural driter, definite plural dritene)
- diarrhoea (UK) or diarrhea (US)
- Synonyms: skite, diaré
- faeces
- Synonyms: drit, skit, skarn, frau, hevd, møk
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
drite (present tense drit, past tense dreit, supine drite, past participle driten, present participle dritande, imperative drit)
- Alternative form of drita (“defecate”)
Slovene
Verb
drite
- second-person plural imperative of dreti
Venetian
Adjective
drite f
- feminine plural of drito