dirts
plural of dirt
dirts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dirt
• distr., strid
Source: Wiktionary
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
24 December 2024
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