Dirt definition
One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
noun
Earth or garden soil.
noun
Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
noun
Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
noun
A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
noun
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Excrement.
noun
Obscene language or subject matter.
noun
Malicious or scandalous gossip.
noun
Any unclean or soiling matter, as mud, dust, dung, trash, etc.; filth.
noun
Malicious talk or gossip.
noun
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(mining) The gravel, soil, etc. from which gold is separated by washing or panning.
noun
Having a surface of compacted earth.
A dirt road.
adjective
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts," about a person; gossip.
The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
noun
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(Ireland) Deposit Interest Retention Tax.
acronym
Earth or soil.
noun
A squalid or filthy condition.
noun
Information that embarrasses or accuses.
noun
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Anything common, filthy, or contemptible.
noun
Dirtiness, nastiness, corruption, etc.
noun
Obscene writing, speech, etc.; pornography.
noun
do someone dirt
- to do harm to someone, as by deception or malicious gossip
idiom
hit the dirt
- to drop to the ground
idiom
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Alternative Forms
Alternative Form of dirt -
durt
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
do someone dirt
Origin of dirt
- Middle English variant of drit excrement, filth, mud from Old Norse
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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”).
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