Dirt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɜːt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dirt is a noun meaning A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
Meaning
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
More Meanings
- Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
- (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Freckles.
- (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
- (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
- (archaic) Excrement; dung.
Example Sentences
honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy
I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.
The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
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
- dirting
- dirted
Synonyms for dirt
Depending on context, synonyms include filth, gossip, kompromat, poop, soil, crap.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include graveled, soil, gravel, unpaved, crap, grease.
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