DIRT

dirt, ungraded

(adjective) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel

scandal, dirt, malicious gossip

(noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grunge

(noun) the state of being covered with unclean things

soil, dirt

(noun) the part of the earth’s surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop, turd

(noun) obscene terms for feces

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

dirt (usually uncountable, plural dirts)

(chiefly, US) Soil or earth.

A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance, filth

Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip; kompromat

(figurative) Meanness; sordidness.

(mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc, before washing.

freckles

Verb

dirt (third-person singular simple present dirts, present participle dirting, simple past and past participle dirted)

(transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Anagrams

• tri-D

Noun

DIRT (uncountable)

(Ireland) Acronym of Deposit Interest Retention Tax.

Anagrams

• tri-D

Source: Wiktionary

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Dirt, n. Etym: [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit excrement, drita to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS. gedritan.]

1. Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

2. Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. Dirt bed (Geom.), a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.

– Dirt eating. (a) The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia.

– Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684).

– To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

Dirt, v. t.

Definition: To make foul of filthy; to dirty. Swift.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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