“Twa things mak ma neb an een dreep at thegither – cuttin ingins fur cookin an streenin on the pan.”
Translate:
dreep: drip.
“Two things have always made my nose and eyes drip together – cutting onions when cooking and straining at my task while sitting upon the toilet bowl.”
The Scottish Word: dreep with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
As a child of the 50s, whether in Glasgow and Clydebank the boys and some girls would dreep frae the backcourt wash houses or walls.
A dreep in Glasgow refers to a man you don’t think much of….useless character