DIRTING

Verb

dirting

present participle of dirt

Anagrams

• driting, triding

Source: Wiktionary

DIRT

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