Dresche
German, noun
Dresche is spelled D-R-E-S-C-H-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 189,851st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dresche is a German feminine noun meaning “synonym of Prügel (“beating”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, dresche is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Prügel”.
What does Dresche mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininesynonym of Prügel (“beating”)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Prügel
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is Dresche in German?
Dresche appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).