dirt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”).
The word originally referred to excrement before shifting to the current sense of "soil". For a semantic parallel, see Norwegian skitt (“dirt, filth, grime, mud”), from Old Norse skítr (“shit”), which is cognate with English shit.
Inflected forms:
form: dirts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: durt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Soil or earth.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
gloss: A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
Perhaps inevitably, as the manipulation of the stars' public images became ever more rigorous, so too did the efforts of gossip columnists such as Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper to uncover dirt and scandal.
gloss: Meanness; sordidness.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy
gloss: In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Freckles.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.
a dirty-faced redhead poked a soiled kerchief beneath my nose, and charmlessly wheedled, "Spare coppers, mister, Spare coppers!" This runny-nosed waif, a "knacker" in the Dublin vernacular, was of the traveling breed who had of late given up their painted wagons for the grimy ghettos of the city. The child -God Bless the Mark- had freckles that splotched her face as though God had applied them too hurriedly with a blunt brush.
Whatever you love about your freckles, they make you unique and beautiful. Don't always feel that you need to clean that dirt off your face with that foundation powder or contour layers. You're naturally beautiful as you are!
gloss: Excrement; dung.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fatte closed vpon the blade, so that hee could not drawe the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.
Derived words: bedirt
common as dirt
dig up dirt
dirtbag
dirt bag
dirtball
dirt bed
dirtbike
dirt bike
dirtbird
dirtboard
dirt-box
dirtbrain
dirt cake
dirt cheap
dirt-cheap
dirt chute
dirt dauber
dirt-dauber
dirt devil
dirten
dirtfall
dirt farmer
dirt farming
dirt file
dirtful
dirthead
dirthole
dirt jumping
dirtless
dirtlike
dirtman
dirt nap
dirt pie
dirt-poor
dirt poor
dirtproof
dirt road
dirt sandwich
dirtside
dirtsome
dirt sticks
dirt track
dirtwad
dirty
dirt yard
dish the dirt
dog dirt
do someone dirt
drag through the dirt
dumb as dirt
eat dirt
fill dirt
hit the dirt
older than dirt
pay dirt
permanent dirt
pound dirt
snirt
take a dirt nap
throw dirt
throw dirt on
treat like dirt
washdirt
white dirt
wood dirt
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قَذَارَة
roman: qaḏāra
lang: Armenian
word: կեղտ
roman: keġt
lang: Bangi
word: mbindo
lang: Belarusian
word: бруд
roman: brud
lang: Belarusian
word: гразь
roman: hrazʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: мръсоти́я
roman: mrǎsotíja
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 污垢
roman: wūgòu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 穢物 /秽物
roman: huìwù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 污
roman: wū
lang: Catalan
word: bruticia
lang: Czech
word: špína
lang: Danish
word: snavs
lang: Dolgan
word: кир
roman: kir
lang: Dutch
word: vuil
lang: Erzya
word: рудаз
roman: rudaz
lang: Esperanto
word: malpuraĵo
lang: Finnish
word: lika
lang: Finnish
word: loka
lang: French
word: saleté
lang: French
word: ordure
lang: Georgian
word: ჭუჭყი
roman: č̣uč̣q̇i
lang: German
word: Schmutz
lang: Greek
word: ακαθαρσία
roman: akatharsía
lang: Hungarian
word: piszok
lang: Ingrian
word: lika
lang: Ingrian
word: riima
lang: Italian
word: sudiciume
lang: Japanese
word: 泥
roman: doro
lang: Japanese
word: 汚物
roman: obutsu
lang: Korean
word: 오물
roman: omul
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кир
roman: kir
lang: Lingala
word: mbindo
lang: Marathi
word: घाण
roman: ghāṇ
lang: Macedonian
word: нечистотија
roman: nečistotija
lang: Mongolian
word: тоос
roman: toos
lang: Mongolian
word: хир
roman: xir
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: smuss
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چِرْک
roman: čerk
lang: Polish
word: brud
lang: Portuguese
word: sujidade
lang: Romagnol
word: cacaréra
lang: Romanian
word: murdărie
lang: Russian
word: грязь
roman: grjazʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: прља́вштина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: нечисто̀ћа
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prljávština
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nečistòća
lang: Slovak
word: špina
lang: Slovene
word: umazanija
lang: Spanish
word: suciedad
lang: Spanish
word: mugor
lang: Spanish
word: mugre
lang: Swedish
word: smuts
lang: Turkish
word: kir
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كیر
roman: kir
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: پیسلك
roman: pislik
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چرك
roman: çirk
lang: Ukrainian
word: бруд
roman: brud
lang: Yakut
word: кир
roman: kir