'To eat dirt' definitions:
Definition of 'To eat 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]