dirt

Meaning

1. Soil or earth.
2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
3. Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
4. Meanness; sordidness.
5. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
6. Freckles.
7. Excrement; dung.

filth

soil

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

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɜːt/

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”).