dirt
Plural: dirts
Noun
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- the state of being covered with unclean things
- obscene terms for feces
- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
- Soil or earth.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
- Meanness; sordidness.
- In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Freckles.
- Excrement; dung.
Adjective Satellite
- (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
Verb
- To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
Examples
- "The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover."
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and drijt, dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”).
Synonyms
crap, filth, gossip, grease, grime, grunge, kompromat, malicious gossip, poop, scandal, shit, shite, soil, stain, turd, ungraded
Scrabble Score: 5
dirt is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL worddirt is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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