Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Earth or soil.
- n. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
- n. Excrement.
- n. A squalid or filthy condition.
- n. One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
- n. Obscene language or subject matter.
- n. Malicious or scandalous gossip.
- n. Information that embarrasses or accuses.
- n. Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
- n. Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. soil or earth
- n. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
- n. Previously unknown negative facts (or invented "facts") about a person, gossip
- v. To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth.
- n. Meanness; sordidness.
- n. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- transitive v. To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any foul or filthy substance, as excrement, mud, mire, or pitch; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul, unclean, or offensive.
- n. Earth, especially loose earth; disintegrated soil, as in gardens; hence, any detrital or disintegrated material.
- n. Specifically In placer-mining, the detrital material (usually sand and gravel) from which the gold is separated by washing.
- n. Meanness; sordidness; baseness.
- n. Abusive or scurrilous language.
- Consisting or made of loose earth: as, a dirt road (a road not paved or macadamized).
- To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. obscene terms for feces
- adj. (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
- n. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
- n. the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- n. the state of being covered with unclean things
Etymologies
Examples
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More Sarah Palin dirt is coming out, as you can see in this Fox News video clip.
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INTC shares were back under $20 recently, which makes the name dirt cheap at current levels with a price to earnings ratio of just 8.8X and a forward PE of 7.8X or so.
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I love the idea of the marble pressed into the dirt is the bowl of sky we see elsewhere.
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He was raised in what he called dirt-poor surroundings in the small west Texas town of Seth Ward, near Plainview.
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In the presidential campaign, also, Barack Obama is fighting back against what he calls dirt lies and nonsense about him and his wife.
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That they'll continue to clean up what they call the dirt on television.
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He was raised in what he called dirt-poor surroundings in the small west Texas town of Seth
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"Back of my neck gettin 'dirt and gritty," indeed.
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I was talking w/hubby about the book - he read a little while I was on my walk - and he mentioned that I already had a couple of tattoos: a pencil lead in my right thigh and clump of dirt from a nasty cat claw!
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The dirt is turned every other week and is used in our vegetable garden.
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hernesheir commented on the word dirt
The dear and precious living substance that is formed upon the regolith on our planet. See Dirt!, the movie. I'd be glad to be as vibrant and teeming as dirt, but might not be, so long as my remains breathe walk upon this earth.
March 5, 2011
bilby commented on the word dirt
Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil.
October 18, 2008
anydelirium commented on the word dirt
'"If someone dared you to eat dirt, you could, couldn't you?" he asked condescendingly.
'I wrinkled my nose. "I did once... on a dare," I admitted. "It wasn't so bad."' -Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
'"I've got a jar of di-irt! I've got a jar of di-irt!"' -Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
February 21, 2008