Often used to describe Scotland's weather on a grey,damp or wet, miserable day. Can also apply to a boring person, speech, sermon, etc, and is thus siimilar to drab. Pronounced dreech.....(ch as in Loch). Example: Think I'll stay indoors & watch the footie(football)--it's a bit dreich outdoors.
DREICH
Meaning of DREICH in English
Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012