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dirt
[durt] 
–noun
—Idioms| 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. |
| 8. | Mining.
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| 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
1250–1300; ME dirt, drit; c. ON drit excrement; cf. OE drītan
Synonyms:
6. scandal, slander, rumor, scuttlebutt.
6. scandal, slander, rumor, scuttlebutt.
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| dirt (dûrt) n.
[Middle English, variant of drit, excrement, filth, mud, from Old Norse.] |
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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.
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Language Translation for : dirt
Spanish:
suciedad,
German:
der Schmutz,
Japanese:
よごれ
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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