dirt

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Synonyms

filth

soil

dust

earth

ground

mud

grime

land

impurity

rubbish

stain

muck

ashes

mire

clay

powder

excrement

crap

refuse

sand

foulness

dirtiness

ordure

sediment

shit

💩

dirty

turd

uncleanness

sweepings

dregs

scandal

slime

poop

💩

shite

cinders

feces

trash

fecal matter

soot

spot

ash

dross

squalor

contamination

slander

buzz

gangue

particle

blemish

excretion

Translations

saleté

Schmutz

suciedad

Dreck

terre

sporco

mugre

sporcizia

lerciume

boue

sudiciume

tierra

terra

Erde

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɜːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drit

Cognate with Norwegian: dritt

Cognate with Icelandic: drit

Cognate with Dutch: drijten

Cognate with Low German: drieten

Cognate with German: Driss

Cognate with Old English: ġedrītan

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”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), 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”).

Sentences

The town is still only accessible by dirt roads .

Two women riding their bicycles along a dirt road .