Containing or resembling dregs; full of sediment or unpleasant impurities.
From 'dreg' plus '-y' suffix. 'Dreg' ultimately comes from Old Norse 'dregg,' originally referring to the sediment in wine or beer barrels.
The word 'dreggy' shows how medieval wine-making created a vocabulary that lasted centuries—wine merchants needed words for murky, sediment-filled barrels, and those terms stuck around even after most people stopped dealing with wine lees.
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