dreg

Meaning

Noun

• Sediment in a liquid.
• By extension, the lowest and most worthless part of something.
• (often plural, insult) scum; filth

Origin

• Borrowed from Old Norse dregg ("sediment"), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks ("sediment"); see also Latin fraces ("lees of oil"), Albanian ndrag ("to make dirty, foul"), dra.