Variant spelling of 'driech,' meaning dreary, tedious, or unpleasant in Scottish English.
An alternative Scottish spelling of 'driech,' showing the regional variation in how Scots words could be written before standardization, with the '-gh' representing the guttural sound found in Gaelic.
Before English spelling was standardized in the 1600s-1800s, people spelled words however they wanted—'driegh' vs 'driech' shows that Scottish writers had multiple ways to represent the same sound.
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