Dirt

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  • noun. Earth or soil.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
  • noun. Excrement.
  • noun. A squalid or filthy condition.
  • noun. One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Obscene language or subject matter.
  • noun. Malicious or scandalous gossip.
  • noun. Information that embarrasses or accuses.
  • noun. Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
  • noun. Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.
  • noun. Any foul or filthy substance, as excrement, mud, mire, or pitch; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul, unclean, or offensive.
  • noun. Earth, especially loose earth; disintegrated soil, as in gardens; hence, any detrital or disintegrated material.
  • noun. Specifically In placer-mining, the detrital material (usually sand and gravel) from which the gold is separated by washing.
  • noun. Meanness; sordidness; baseness.
  • noun. Abusive or scurrilous language.
  • Consisting or made of loose earth: as, a dirt road (a road not paved or macadamized).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth.
  • noun. Meanness; sordidness.
  • noun. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  • noun. a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.
  • noun. Same as Chthonophagia.
  • noun. clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry.
  • noun. to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.
  • transitive verb. To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. soil or earth
  • noun. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • noun. Previously unknown negative facts (or invented "facts") about a person, gossip
  • verb. To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. obscene terms for feces
  • adjective. (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
  • noun. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
  • noun. the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
  • noun. the state of being covered with unclean things
  • Word Usage
    "More Sarah Palin dirt is coming out, as you can see in this Fox News video clip."
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