drek
Trash, in Yiddish
Drek is worthless trash or rubbish—junk of the lowest quality.
From Yiddish, it literally means excrement but typically describes shoddy merchandise, terrible creative work, or anything contemptibly bad: The studio keeps churning out the same drek.
Also spelled dreck.
Low-quality merchandise
- crapWorthless material or nonsense
- drivelSenseless, silly talk
- bilgeShip's water-collecting depths
- tripeStomach lining or nonsense
hogwash · balderdash · twaddle · rubbish · bunk · hokum · pablum · swill
Discarded waste material
- trashDiscarded worthless material
- junkWorthless discarded items
- refuseReject or garbage
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
debris · detritus · litter · scrap · rubble · flotsam · dross · chaff
Low-quality merchandise
- kitschTasteless, garish art
- cheapLow in price
- tawdryCheaply ornate and vulgar
- tackyVulgar or slightly sticky
cheesy · junky · crummy · shoddy · second-rate · inferior · substandard · low-grade
schlock
Low-quality merchandise
tripe · hogwash · balderdash · twaddle · rubbish · bunk · hokum · pablum · swill · rot
garbage
Discarded waste material
waste · debris · detritus · litter · scrap · rubble · flotsam · dross · chaff · offal
schlock
Low-quality merchandise
tacky · cheesy · junky · crummy · shoddy · second-rate · inferior · substandard · low-grade · shabby
schlock
Low-quality merchandise
- schmaltzPoultry fat or sentimentality
- tchotchkeSmall decorative trifle
- schmatteYiddish for cheap cloth
shmutz · bubkes · kitsch · shtick · schlocky · schmaltziness
crap
Worthless material or nonsense
filth · slime · scum · swill · offal · excrement · muck · sludge · sewage · crud
drekmasterpiece
Supreme artistic achievement
classic · magnum opus · high art · tour de force · literature