dree

• IPA^(key): /dɹiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

From Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to work, act, do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Cognate with Scots dree, drie (“to endure, thole, suffer, bear”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”), Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”). See also dright, drighten.

dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreeing, simple past and past participle dreed)

1. (transitive, chiefly dialectal, North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 8:

     And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree.

2. (intransitive, chiefly dialectal, North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue.

• (suffer): See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (endure):

• adree
• dree one’s weird

From Middle English dreȝ, dregh, dryȝ (“long, extended, great”), from Old English *drēog (“fit, sober, earnest”) and/or Old Norse drjúgr (“extensive, sufficient”); both from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (“extensive, firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Cognate with Scots dreich (“extensive, lasting, long-lasting, tedious, tiresome, slow”), West Frisian drege (“extensive, long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough, solid, heavy”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, liberal, hard, large, ample”), Icelandic drjúgur (“long, substantial, ample, heavy”).

• dreigh, dreegh (Scotland)

dree (comparative more dree, superlative most dree)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Long; large; ample; great.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Great; of serious moment.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Tedious; wearisome; tiresome.

• dreely

From Middle English dreghe, dregh, from dregh, dreȝ (“long, extended, great”). See above.

dree (plural drees)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Length; extension; the longest part.

• Reed, de re, deer, dere, rede, reed

• drei
• dre

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie.

dree

1. three

• (ordinal numeral) darde, drüdde, drüdd', drütt, drütte (in Dithmarschen)

dree

1. second-person singular imperative of dreeën

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie.

dree

1. three

From Old English drēogan.

• IPA^(key): /driː/

dree (third-person singular present drees, present participle dreein, past dreed, past participle dreed)

1. to endure, suffer, put up with, undergo

• dree one’s weird