grime

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  1. noun Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
  2. transitive verb To cover with black dirt or soot; begrime.

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  • But the first thing every U-boat man wanted when he returned from a patrol was a real bath with tons of hot soapy water to wash away the sweat, grime, and weariness of the North Atlantic. —  Grey Wolf, Grey Sea
  • She was covered with dirt and grime, and her hair was a tangled mess, and she looked hungry and tired—yet she was as pretty a girl as he could have imagined. —  Serpents's Silver
  • This one was fairly young; were it not for the caked grime, her face and form might have been tolerable. —  Night Mare
  • Jace's face was bloodless under a mask of sweat, grime, and a spatter of blood high on his left cheek. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • The art of the goldsmith had been linked to these brutal tools for digging and killing, man's most intricate craftsmanship used to set off all the nicks, grime, and blood that Nature had provided. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
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soot ·  italo ·  filth ·  grease ·  slime ·  perspiration ·  dirt ·  mildew ·  droppings ·  dung ·  dampness ·  sawdust
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English grim; akin to Middle Dutch grīme; see ghrēi- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English grim, prob. of Scandinavian origin, from Danish grime, a streak, a stripe (later grimet, streaked, striped), = Swedish dial. grima, a spot or smut on the face (cf. Middle Dutch grimsel, grijmsel, soot, smut (Kilian), grimmelen, soil, begrime; Low German grimmelig, ingrimmelig, soiled, dirty), = Friesic grime, a dark mark on the face, also a mask, = Anglo-Saxon grīma, a mask, vizor, = Icelandic grīma, a kind of hood or cowl. It is not certain that all these words belong to one root.
  2. from grime, n.
 

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