Dirt Definition
dûrt
noun
Any unclean or soiling matter, as mud, dust, dung, trash, etc.; filth.
Webster's New World
Earth or garden soil.
Webster's New World
Excrement.
American Heritage
Anything common, filthy, or contemptible.
Webster's New World
A squalid or filthy condition.
American Heritage
abbreviation
(Ireland) Deposit Interest Retention Tax.
Wiktionary
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Dirt
- do someone dirt
- hit the dirt
Origin of Dirt
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From Middle English drit (“excrement”), probably from Old Norse drit (“exrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), Icelandic drit (“bird exrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and dreet (“excrement”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”), Albanian ndyrë (“dirty, filthy”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English variant of drit excrement, filth, mud from Old Norse
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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