† ˈdrasty, a. Obs.
Also dresty.
[f. drast + -y1. In several places the s has been misread or misprinted as f, which was perhaps actually the source of drafty a.]
Dreggy; fig. vile, worthless, ‘rubbishy’.
| a 1000 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 238/20 Feculentus, fece plenus, dræstiᵹ. c 1386 Chaucer Melib. Prol. 5 Min eres aken of thy drasty speche. Ibid. 12 Thy drasty rymyng [Tyrwhitt, etc., in both places, drafty]. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxxvi. (1495) 727 Erthy partyes and drasty. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 195 Olyvys..With drasty [mispr. 1873 drafty] wattry fruyt. 1499 Promp. Parv. 131/2 Dreggy (Pynson dresty) or fulle of drestys, feculentus. 1530 Palsgr. 311/1 Dresty, full of drestes, lieux. |