“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.
Growing up in Edinburgh to Dreep was to lower yourself down a wall till hanging by your fingertips then drop to the ground
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