Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
- v. To cover with black dirt or soot; begrime.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Foul matter; dirt; soil; foulness, especially of a surface; smuttiness.
- To cover with dirt; soil; befoul; begrime.
Wiktionary
- n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
- n. music A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
- v. To begrime; to cake with dirt
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
- v. To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being covered with unclean things
- v. make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Etymologies
- Middle English grim ("dirt or soot covering the face") from a specialized note of Old English grīma ("mask"). Possibly influenced by Danish grim ("soot, grime"), Old Dutch grijmsel, Middle Dutch grime, Middle Low German greme ("dirt"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English grim; akin to Middle Dutch grīme; see ghrēi- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She wore a bright yellow apron covered in grime and pizza toppings, and dried sarcasm stained her red sleeves.”
“Spotting a gem through decades of kitchen grime is only the first step.”
“Ow dirty I am, bein' around the w'y I 'ave," the woman said, as she sat down in a coffee-house, wiping the sleep and grime from the corners of her eyes.”
“That tarnish, sweat and grime is part of its history.”
“Nevermind that he was sweating buckets and covered in grime having just been to a hell of a scuffle involving a shrieking demon of a chav bride armed with a broken wine glass … Mind that kettle son – you could burn someone and i might not get my next pip. on July 3, 2009 at 8: 33 pm MarkUK”
“This was an answer to the US rap scene and became known as grime: not songs so much as soundscapes to urban life – Dizzee's staccato patter against a backdrop of police sirens, ringtones, radio static and video games.”
“Theater: Some of my old "partners in grime" from the down-and-dirty road are on the Internet:”
“Finally, walking in with his body covered with sweat and grime, is the same guy that has kept the clubbies late all spring.”
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“A dirty street, a sidewalk spotted with old chewing gum and grime, is a turnoff for shoppers.”
“Emperor to hurry away from a dinner given to him by a king, perhaps, to get into his working clothes, and in grime and dirt, work like a common laborer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grime’.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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music genre
list of music genres - anything. even the most obscure sub-genres of sub-genres
twee pop, indie, shoegaze, doo-wop, punk, rock, jazz, pop, classical, hard rock, emo, goth and 190 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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more chambers 12th dictionary
more stuff Ive collected
they put in 200 items and reckon
thats an update ,so what do
lexicographers do? Take long
lunches is my theoryCDO, CCJ, alt definition 2, bad bank, black water, burn bag, burn rate, carbon capture an..., carbon offsetting, carbon paper, Carroll diagram, cloud and 57 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1907 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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grossness
anything gross can be here
merdivorous, vomit, vomitus, pee, scybala, slime, grime, snot
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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is this all there is
this is it
dillema, destruction, conundrum, proxy, spurious, usurp, divulge, vapid, lucid, malicious, ubseqious, burden and 75 more...
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painterly's list
apt descriptions for paintings made or paintings to come
residuum, deciduous, grime, bedlam, grey, coagulate, placeless, absence, silt, symbiosis, syncronicity, simulacra and 19 more...
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GRE Words
Word list for GRE preparation. Words taken from reading and Kaplan GRE course.
remnant, grime, voracious, prod, ostracize, depradation, befuddle, pugnacious, sanguine, parvenu, peter, yearn and 38 more...
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Ugly Words
Words that I think sound "ugly" or have an "ugly" connotation.
vomit, wart, grime, sludge, puke, mulch, drudge, garbage, secrete, puss, zit, membrane and 9 more...
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