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Dirt Definition And Meaning
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.

Dirt Definition And Meaning

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"

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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