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Share This dirt Audio Help / dɜrt / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ durt ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –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 . 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 . 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 . The prosecutor seemed determined to make the defendant eat dirt.
[Origin:
1250–1300; ME
dirt, drit; c. ON
drit excrement; cf. OE
drītan ]
—Synonyms 6 .
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Earth or soil.
A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
Excrement.
Obscene language or subject matter.
Malicious or scandalous gossip.
Information that embarrasses or accuses.
A squalid or filthy condition.
One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
Obscene language or subject matter.
Malicious or scandalous gossip.
Information that embarrasses or accuses.
Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
drit , excrement, filth, mud , from Old Norse.]
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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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Share This 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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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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Share This dirt [dəːt] noun
any unclean substance, such as mud, dust, dung etc
Example:
His shoes are covered in dirt.
Arabic: وَسَخ، قَذارَه Chinese (Simplified): 污物 Chinese (Traditional): 汙物 Czech: špína Danish: mudder; støv; møg; jord Dutch: vuil Estonian: mustus Finnish: lika French: saleté German: der Schmutz Greek: βρομιά, χώμα Hungarian: piszok Icelandic: óhreinindi, skítur Indonesian: kotoran Italian: sporcizia
Japanese: よごれ Korean: 먼지, 오물 Latvian: netīrumi; dubļi Lithuanian: purvas, nešvarumai Norwegian: skitt, søle Polish: brud Portuguese (Brazil): sujeira Portuguese (Portugal): sujidade Romanian: murdărie Russian: грязь Slovak: špina Slovenian: umazanija Spanish: suciedad Swedish: smuts Turkish: pislik, kir, çamur
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dirt-cheap ,
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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.
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Dirt\, v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty. --Swift.
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