dirt

dirt  (dûrt)

n.

1. Earth or soil.

2.

a. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.

b. Excrement.

3. A squalid or filthy condition.

4. One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.

5.

a. Obscene language or subject matter.

b. Malicious or scandalous gossip.

c. Information that embarrasses or accuses.

6. Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.

7. Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.

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

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dirt

Noun

1. any unclean substance, such as mud; filth

2. loose earth; soil

3. packed earth, cinders, etc., used to make a racetrack

4. obscene speech or writing

5. Informal harmful gossip [Old Norse drit excrement]

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Dirt

See also cleanliness; soil

aischrolatreia

a devotion to or worship of filth and obscenity.

automysophobia

Rare. an abnormal fear of being dirty.

feculence, feculency

1. the condition of being befouled or besmirched.
2. the material causing this condition. — feculent, adj.

fuliginosity

1. the state or condition of being sooty or smoky.
2. soot or smoke. — fuliginous, adj.

maculacy

the state or quality of being blemished, stained, or spotted, as with dirt. Also maculation. — maculate, adj.

misophobia, musophobia, mysophobia

an abnormal fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt.

mysophilia

an abnormal attraction to filth.

rhypophobia

an abnormal fear of filth.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	dirt - the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock soil marl - a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime regosol - a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand residual clay, residual soil - the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved surface soil, topsoil - the layer of soil on the surface subsoil, undersoil - the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock alluvial soil - a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds bog soil - poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation clay - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired clunch - hardened clay desert soil, desertic soil - a type of soil that develops in arid climates earth, ground - the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church" caliche, hardpan - crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions fuller's earth - an absorbent soil resembling clay; used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent gilgai soil - soil in the melon holes of Australia gumbo, gumbo soil - any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water humus - partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil indurated clay - hardened clay Indian red - a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment laterite - a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides loam - a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials loess - a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind mould, mold - loose soil rich in organic matter mud, clay - water soaked soil; soft wet earth bole - a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil - a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer prairie soil - a type of soil occurring under grasses in temperate climates sand - a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral sedimentary clay - clay soil formed by sedimentary deposits silt - mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake boulder clay, till - unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together tundra soil - a black mucky soil with a frozen subsoil that is characteristic of Arctic and subarctic regions wiesenboden - a dark meadow soil rich in organic material; developed through poor drainage in humid grassy or sedge regions
	2.	dirt - the state of being covered with unclean things grime, grunge, soil, filth, grease, stain dirtiness, uncleanness - the state of being unsanitary
	3.	dirt - obscene terms for feces crap, poop, shit, shite, turd dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, smut, filth - an offensive or indecent word or phrase faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, BM, dejection, stool - solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
	4.	dirt - disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people malicious gossip, scandal scuttlebutt, gossip, comment - a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"
Adj.	1.	dirt - (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel ungraded unimproved - not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing; "taxes on unimproved land are low"; "unimproved dirt roads"

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dirt

noun 1. filth, muck, grime, dust, mud, stain, crap (taboo), (slang) tarnish, smudge, mire, impurity, slob Irish crud (slang) kak S. African (taboo), (slang) grot (slang)

noun 2. soil, ground, earth, clay, turf, clod, loam, loam

Translations

dirt [dəːt] n → suciedad f

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dirt [dəːt] n → saleté f (= mud); boue f;

to treat sb like dirt → traiter qn comme un chien

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dirt [dəːt] n → Schmutz m;

(earth) → Erde f;

to treat sb like dirt → jdn wie (den letzten) Dreck behandeln

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dirt [dəːt] n → sporcizia; immondizia;

to treat sb like dirt → trattare qn come uno straccio