About The Word Dirt
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Dirt
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What's The Definition Of Dirt?
[n] disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
[n] the state of being covered with unclean things [n] the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock [n] obscene terms for feces [adj] (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel [adj] made of packed earth or gravel; "a dirt road" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dirt: crap | filth | gravel | graveled | grease | grime | grunge | malicious gossip | poop | scandal | shit | shite | soil | soil | stain | turd | ungraded | unimproved | unpaved Related Terms | Find terms related to Dirt: acres | alluvion | alluvium | arable land | bawdiness | bawdry | blue movie | character assassination | clay | clod | corruption | crust | dirtiness | dirty movie | dope | dross | dry land | dust | earth | erotic art | erotic literature | erotographomania | excrement | fescenninity | filth | filthiness | foulness | freehold | garbage | glebe | gossip | gossip column | grassland | grime | ground | iconolagny | indecency | inside information | juicy morsel | junk | land | landholdings | leavings | lewdness | lithosphere | loam | low-down | malicious gossip | marginal land | marl | mire | mold | muck | mud | nastiness | obscenity | offal | offensiveness | ooze | ordure | orts | pornographic art | pornographic literature | pornographomania | pornography | Rabelaisianism | real estate | real property | refuse | region | regolith | ribaldry | rubbish | rumor | salaciousness | salacity | scandal | scandalmongering | scrap | scurrility | scuttlebutt | sexploitation | sharp practice | skin flick | slander | slime | slop | sludge | smut | smuttiness | sod | soft-core pornography | soil | soot | stag film | subaerial deposit | subsoil | sweepings | talk | terra | terra firma | terrain | territory | the country | tidbit | topsoil | trash | vileness | waste | whispering campaign | woodland | X-rated movie See Also | alluvial soil | BM | bog soil | bole | boulder clay | caliche | clay | clunch | comment | dejection | desert soil | desertic soil | dirtiness | dust | earth | faecal matter | faeces | fecal matter | feces | fuller's earth | gilgai soil | gossip | ground | gumbo | gumbo soil | hardpan | humus | Indian red | indurated clay | laterite | loam | loess | marl | mold | mould | mud | ordure | podsol | podsol soil | podsolic soil | podzol | podzol soil | prairie soil | regosol | residual clay | residual soil | sand | scuttlebutt | sedimentary clay | silt | stool | subsoil | surface soil | till | topsoil | tundra soil | uncleanness | undersoil | wiesenboden Dirt In Webster's Dictionary \Dirt\, n. [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit excrement, dr[=i]ta
to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS. gedr[=i]tan.]
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. To make foul of filthy; to dirty. --Swift. |
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