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noun

Dirt n.

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. "Whose waters cast up mire and dirt."

Meanness; sordidness. "Honors... thrown away upon dirt and infamy."

In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

Dirt bed (Geom.), a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.

Dirt eating.

(a)

The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism.

(b)

(Med.) Same as Chthonophagia.

Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry.

To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

verb

Dirt v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty.

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Etymology of 'Dirt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dirt" Quotes from Famous Books

... against her struggling feet she saved herself from the despair of utter futility by taking soap and water and sand, and going forth to attack the paint on her house walls, and also the front door-stone worn in frequent hollows for the collection of dirt and dust. ...

— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... realizes that dirt is only useful matter in the wrong place, as Tennyson sings so ...

— Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers • Don Marquis

... had been jilted in her youth, and her heart had been wrung by the sight of her rival passing her very window where she sat watching for her lover, arm in arm with him. It was in summer, and the dirt sidewalk was dry. She made up her mind, then and there, that that sort of thing should ...

— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

... Gordon scurrying to a place of safety. He wheeled in his tracks, doubling himself over, and his long legs began to thresh wildly. Reaching the shelter of a rock crevice, he hurled himself into it, while over his place of refuge descended a shower of dirt and rocks and debris. When the rain of missiles had subsided he stepped forth, his face white with fury, his big hands twitching. His voice was hoarse as ...

— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... half his antipathies," he said; "and that makes it hard for me to corner him in an argument. The boy was born with a hatred of dirt and of lying and of toadying, and he is utterly intolerant of anybody who shows anything of the three. His theories are all right, only his way of carrying them out makes him rather unpopular. But what is worrying me now is his school work. He isn't stupid; but ...

— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray

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