dirt
Significado (English)
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- 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.
Synonyms
fine dust
groundless news
senseless gossip
unfounded news
malicious gossip
sandy ground
this drab world
coal-dust
filt
what is swept away
name calling
body filth
pepper-and-salt
rough stuff
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/dɜːt/
Etimoloxía (English)
In summary
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”), 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”).
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