'Dirt' definitions:
Definition of 'Dirt'
From: GCIDE
- Dirt \Dirt\ (d[~e]rt), n. [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit excrement, dr[imac]ta to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS. gedr[imac]tan.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. --Is. lvii. 20. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Meanness; sordidness. [1913 Webster]
- Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. --Melmoth. [1913 Webster]
- 3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia.
- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. --Otway (1684).
- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dirt'
From: GCIDE
- Dirt \Dirt\, v. t. To make foul of filthy; to dirty. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dirt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acres,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- arable land,
- bawdiness,
- bawdry,
- blue movie,
- character assassination,
- clay,
- clod,
- corruption,
- crust,
- dirtiness,
- dirty movie,
- dope,
- dross,
- dry land,
- dust,
- earth,
- erotic art,
- erotic literature,
- erotographomania,
- excrement,
- fescenninity,
- filth,
- filthiness,
- foulness,
- freehold,
- garbage,
- glebe,
- gossip,
- gossip column,
- grassland,
- grime,
- ground,
- iconolagny,
- indecency,
- inside information,
- juicy morsel,
- junk,
- land,
- landholdings,
- leavings,
- lewdness,
- lithosphere,
- loam,
- low-down,
- malicious gossip,
- marginal land,
- marl,
- mire,
- mold,
- muck,
- mud,
- nastiness,
- obscenity,
- offal,
- offensiveness,
- ooze,
- ordure,
- orts,
- pornographic art,
- pornographic literature,
- pornographomania,
- pornography,
- Rabelaisianism,
- real estate,
- real property,
- refuse,
- region,
- regolith,
- ribaldry,
- rubbish,
- rumor,
- salaciousness,
- salacity,
- scandal,
- scandalmongering,
- scrap,
- scurrility,
- scuttlebutt,
- sexploitation,
- sharp practice,
- skin flick,
- slander,
- slime,
- slop,
- sludge,
- smut,
- smuttiness,
- sod,
- soft-core pornography,
- soil,
- soot,
- stag film,
- subaerial deposit,
- subsoil,
- sweepings,
- talk,
- terra,
- terra firma,
- terrain,
- territory,
- the country,
- tidbit,
- topsoil,
- trash,
- vileness,
- waste,
- whispering campaign,
- woodland,
- X-rated movie