filth

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If food as their filth was as plenty for diet,

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  1. noun Foul or dirty matter.
  2. noun Disgusting garbage or refuse.
  3. noun A dirty or corrupt condition; foulness.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English fȳlth; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English filthe, felthe, fulthe, from Anglo-Saxon fy¯lth (= Old Saxon fūlitha = Dutch vuilte = Old High German fūlida), filth, foulness, from fūl, foul, + formative -th: see foul and file.
 

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