dreich.

"Burk and Hare were arrested on a dreich morning. - Probably."

Translation:

Dreich: dull/bleak/miserable.

For those that don't know - Burke and Hare were infamous body snatchers.

Or as it has been pointed out, they rather avoided the middleman (undertaker) and the digging, in that they committed murder to acquire nice fresh bodies to sell.

13, June, 2000.