Meaning

(chiefly US) Soil or earth..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
3. Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
4. (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
5. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
6. Freckles.
7. (archaic) Excrement; dung.
8. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Example Sentences

The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.

Perhaps inevitably, as the manipulation of the stars' public images became ever more rigorous, so too did the efforts of gossip columnists such as Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper to uncover dirt and scandal.

honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy

I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.

a dirty-faced redhead poked a soiled kerchief beneath my nose, and charmlessly wheedled, "Spare coppers, mister, Spare coppers!" This runny-nosed waif, a "knacker" in the Dublin vernacular, was of the traveling breed who had of late given up their painted wagons for the grimy ghettos of the city. The child -God Bless the Mark- had freckles that splotched her face as though God had applied them too hurriedly with a blunt brush.

Whatever you love about your freckles, they make you unique and beautiful. Don't always feel that you need to clean that dirt off your face with that foundation powder or contour layers. You're naturally beautiful as you are!

And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fatte closed vpon the blade, so that hee could not drawe the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.

Word Forms

• dirts
• durt
• dirting
• dirted

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