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grime, muck, filth, profanity, smut, vulgarity, clay, dregs, dust, earth, mud, sand

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dirt

[durt]

–noun

1.	any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.

2.	earth or soil, esp. when loose.

3.	something or someone vile, mean, or worthless: After that last outburst of hers I thought she was dirt.

4.	moral filth; vileness; corruption.

5.	obscene or lewd language: to talk dirt.

6.	Informal. gossip, esp. of a malicious, lurid, or scandalous nature: Tell me all the latest dirt.

7.	private or personal information which if made public would create a scandal or ruin the reputation of a person, company, etc.

Mining.

a.	crude, broken ore or waste.

b.	(in placer mining) the material from which gold is separated by washing.

—Idioms

9.	do (someone) dirt. dirty (def. 18).

10.	eat dirt, Informal. to accept blame, guilt, criticism, or insults without complaint; humble or abase oneself: The prosecutor seemed determined to make the defendant eat dirt.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME dirt, drit; c. ON drit excrement; cf. OE drītan

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Language Translation for : Dirt

Spanish:

suciedad,

German:

der Schmutz,

Japanese:

よごれ

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dirt (dûrt) Pronunciation Key
n.

Earth or soil.
1. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
2. Excrement.
3. Obscene language or subject matter.
4. Malicious or scandalous gossip.
5. Information that embarrasses or accuses.
A squalid or filthy condition.
One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
1. Obscene language or subject matter.
2. Malicious or scandalous gossip.
3. Information that embarrasses or accuses.
Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.

[Middle English, variant of drit, excrement, filth, mud, from Old Norse.]

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dirt

15c. metathesis of M.E. drit, drytt "mud, dirt, dung" (c.1300), from O.N. drit, cognate with O.E. dritan, from P.Gmc. *dritanan. Meaning "gossip" first attested 1926 (in Hemingway); dirt bike is 1960s. Dirty in the sense of "morally unclean" is attested from 1599. Dirty linen "personal or familial secrets" is first recorded 1860s. Dirt-cheap is from 1821.

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dirt
adjective
1.	(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
noun
1.	the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock [syn: soil]
2.	the state of being covered with unclean things
3.	obscene terms for feces [syn: crap]
4.	disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people [syn: scandal]

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dirt

In addition to the idiom beginning with dirt, also see dig up (dirt); dish the dirt; eat crow (dirt); hit the deck (dirt); pay dirt; treat like dirt. Also see under dirty.

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Dirt

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

Dirt\, v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty. --Swift.