dirty
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”).
See also drite.
Base: dirt
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: dirtier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dirtiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dorty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: more dirty
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dirty
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: dorty
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: dirties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dirtying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dirtied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dirtied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dorty
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: dirties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dorty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northumbria
Senses:
gloss: Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
pos: adj
examples: Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty.
Many persons are more comfortable when they are dirty than when they are clean; but that does not recommend dirt as a national policy.
gloss: That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
pos: adj
examples: Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty.
gloss: Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
pos: adj
examples: At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.
He sets up little cameras 'cause he likes to watch her pee / He likes to watch her pee, he's trembling with glee / He sets up little cameras 'cause he likes to watch her pee / What a dirty little bastard he can be
We have quite a playful and fun relationship in general, but it’s still surprising how dirty our sex can be in the things we say or do or pretend. We often laugh about it afterwards.
gloss: Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.
pos: adj
examples: He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.
The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable.[…]Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
gloss: Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
pos: adj
examples: I won't accept your dirty money!
gloss: Out of tune.
pos: adj
examples: You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.
gloss: Of color, discolored by impurities.
pos: adj
examples: The old flag was a dirty white.
gloss: Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
pos: adj
examples: Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.
Notice that an asterisk has been added to the filename in the edit window tabs. This is a simple reminder that the file is “dirty” and needs saving.
gloss: Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: None of y'all get into my car if you're dirty.
gloss: Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He lives in a dirty great mansion.
gloss: Sleety; gusty; stormy.
pos: adj
examples: dirty weather
Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea.
Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off.
gloss: Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: dirty martini
gloss: Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
pos: adj
examples: You can call it quick-and-dirty if you like, but there are billions of dollars out there riding on the supposition that fast food is not necessarily dirty food.
Dirty keto refers to an approach that follows the typical keto macro ratios, but the components include “dirty” foods like fast food, packaged convenience foods, processed meats, artificially sweetened diet sodas and sports drinks, and unhealthy […]
gloss: Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings.
pos: adj
examples: Lardo in Portland, Oregon, serves "dirty fries" topped with fried rosemary, peppers, lardons, and Parmesan.
Piled high and oozing all the trimmings, the dirty burgers here are decidedly good – spice things up with jalapeños, brie or a seriously sticky BBQ sauce.
gloss: Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
pos: adj
examples: a dirty explosion
a dirty bomb
gloss: Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
pos: adj
gloss: Producing much ash.
pos: adj
gloss: In a dirty manner.
pos: adv
examples: to play dirty
gloss: To make (something) dirty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become soiled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The markers for the slow line signals have been arranged at cab level, but for the inner fast lines they have had to be kept low in the "six-foot", with the result that they tend to be badly dirtied by passing traffic.
gloss: Anything that is dirty.
pos: noun
examples: I had to get started on the trays. […] I started emptying it from the bottom, putting the dirties in the water. Then I could put the clean ones in the empty spaces to dry while I pulled more dirties from the next shelf up.
Dirty eggs are grouped roughly in three classes: (A) Plain dirties, those to which soil or dung adheres; […]
Synonyms: assoil
beclart
bedaub
bedirty
imbrue (especially with blood)
bedizen
befile
befilth
befoul
begrime
beray
beshit
besmear
besmirch
besully
bewray
blacken
blot
blur
clat
contaminate
darken
defile
dirten
dirty
elt
file
foil
foul
gunk
gunk up
inquinate
scunge
sling mud
slotter
slur
smear
smirch
smudge
smut
smutch
soil
soss
sowl
spot
stain
sullow
sully
tarnish
uggle
Antonyms: clean
make clean
Related words: unclean
worsen
Derived words: air one's dirty laundry in public
air one's dirty linen in public
bedirty
dirtily
dirtiness
dirtybadwrong
dirty blond
dirty blonde
dirty bomb
dirty bulk
dirty bulking
dirty business
dirty chai
dirty coal
dirty code
Dirty Creek
dirty dairying
dirty dance
dirty dancing
dirty delete
dirty dozens
dirty feed
dirty finger
dirty float
dirty Gertie
dirty girl
dirty grease
dirty-handed
Dirty Harry
dirty ice cream
dirtyish
dirty joke
dirty kitchen
dirty laundry
dirty linen
dirty look
dirty magazine
dirty martini
dirty mind
dirty minded
dirty money
dirty mouth
dirty old man
dirty pillow
dirty pint
dirty pool
dirty power
dirty protest
dirty realism
dirty rice
dirty rush
dirty Sanchez
Dirty Shirley
dirty snowball
dirty soda
dirty talk
Dirty Thirties
dirty thunderstorm
dirty trick
Dirty War
dirty war
dirty washing
dirty weather
dirty weekend
dirty word
dirty work
dirty wound
do someone dirty
do the dirty on
down and dirty
filthy dirty
get one's hands dirty
get the dirty water off one's chest
nondirty
off like a dirty shirt
quick-and-dirty
quick and dirty
undirty
un-dirty
wash one's dirty laundry in public
wash one's dirty linen in public
dirty down
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: vuil
lang: Armenian
word: կեղտոտ
roman: keġtot
lang: Asturian
word: gochu
lang: Asturian
word: puercu
lang: Bulgarian
word: циничен
roman: ciničen
lang: Bulgarian
word: неприличен
roman: nepriličen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 淫穢的 /淫秽的
roman: yínhuìde
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 骯髒 /肮脏
roman: āngzāng
lang: Czech
word: sprostý
lang: Danish
word: beskidt
lang: Dutch
word: vuil
lang: Dutch
word: vulgair
lang: Dutch
word: obsceen
lang: Dutch
word: schunnig
lang: Finnish
word: tuhma
lang: Finnish
word: rivo
lang: Finnish
word: hävytön
lang: Finnish
word: säädytön
lang: Finnish
word: ruma
lang: French
word: cochon
lang: German
word: schmutzig
lang: German
word: dreckig
lang: German
word: vulgär
lang: German
word: obszön
lang: German
word: ordinär
lang: Greek
word: βρόμικος
roman: vrómikos
lang: Hebrew
word: מלוכלך \ מְלֻכְלָךְ
roman: m'lukhlákh
lang: Hungarian
word: piszkos
lang: Ido
word: sordida
lang: Ido
word: perversa
lang: Irish
word: salach
lang: Irish
word: gáirsiúil
lang: Irish
word: cáidheach
lang: Italian
word: sporco
lang: Italian
word: indecente
lang: Jamaican Creole
word: dutty
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: pîs
lang: Ladino
word: murdar
lang: Lakota
word: šikšíl
lang: Latvian
word: netīrs
lang: Latvian
word: nešķīsts
lang: Latvian
word: neķītrs
lang: Lithuanian
word: nešvankus
lang: Lithuanian
word: nepadorus
lang: Malay
word: kotor
lang: Marathi
word: घाणेरडा
roman: ghāṇerḍā
lang: Marathi
word: घाणेरडी
roman: ghāṇerḍī
lang: Marathi
word: घाणेरडे
roman: ghāṇerḍe
lang: Pashto
word: سخا
roman: sxâ
lang: Plautdietsch
word: orrein
lang: Plautdietsch
word: schmutzich
lang: Polish
word: sprośny
lang: Polish
word: nieprzyzwoity
lang: Polish
word: świński
lang: Portuguese
word: sujo
lang: Romanian
word: murdar
lang: Romanian
word: necuviincios
lang: Romanian
word: obscen
lang: Romanian
word: indecent
lang: Russian
word: гря́зный
roman: grjáznyj
lang: Russian
word: са́льный
roman: sálʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: скабрёзный
roman: skabrjóznyj
lang: Slovene
word: umazan
lang: Spanish
word: verde
lang: Spanish
word: sucio
lang: Spanish
word: guarro
lang: Spanish
word: ordinario
lang: Spanish
word: indecente
lang: Spanish
word: lúbrico
lang: Spanish
word: lascivo
lang: Swedish
word: snuskig
lang: Turkish
word: müstehcen
lang: Venetan
word: onto
lang: Venetan
word: sporco
lang: Venetan
word: desconsà
lang: Vietnamese
word: tục tĩu
lang: Vietnamese
word: bậy
lang: Vietnamese
word: bậy bạ
lang: Yiddish
word: מיאוס
roman: mius