Meaning

7 senses

  1. (US, uncountable, usually)Soil or earth.

    Erde, Boden, Dreck

    земля́zemljá, по́чваpóčva, грязьgrjazʹ

    земля́zemljá, брудbrud

  2. (uncountable, usually)A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.

    Dreck, Schmutz, Fleck

    грязьgrjazʹ, пятно́pjatnó

    пля́маpljáma

  3. (uncountable, usually)Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.

    The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.

    Dreck, Schmutz, Unrat

    компрома́тkompromát

    компрома́тkompromát

  4. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Meanness; sordidness.

    Schmutz

    грязьgrjazʹ

    брудbrud

  5. (uncountable, usually)In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

  6. (uncountable, usually)Freckles.

  7. (archaic, uncountable, usually)Excrement; dung.

More definitions
  • anything regarded as making something unclean
  • disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
  • the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
  • obscene terms for feces

Examples

232 sentences

  1. He will make you eat dirt.

    ruОн заставит тебя унизиться. — RusVictoric1993

    deEr wird dich dazu bringen, dass du ihm die Stiefel leckst. — Tickler

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  2. Clean the dirt off the mirror.

    ruУдалите грязь с зеркала. — Ivanovb

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  3. Tom lives on a dirt road.

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  4. A little dirt won't hurt you.

    deEin bißchen Schmutz tut nicht weh. — Waldelfe

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  5. The children were playing in the dirt.

    ruДети играли в грязи. — odexed

    deDie Kinder haben im Dreck gespielt. — Vortarulo

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
soil or earth:
stain or spot (on clothes etc):
previously unknown negative information, kompromat:
Русский
By meaning 3
soil or earth:
stain or spot (on clothes etc):
previously unknown negative information, kompromat:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
soil or earth:
stain or spot (on clothes etc):
previously unknown negative information, kompromat:

Origin

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germ

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 dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”).

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Forms

plural: dirts
Singulardirt

uncountable

Synonyms

11 synonyms
gossipB1filthkompromat
Close in meaning
  • anything regarded as making something unclean:filthgrimesoilstaingreasegrunge
  • disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people:scandalmalicious gossip
  • the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock:soil
  • obscene terms for feces:poop

Word family

47 related words
Relateddirty
Derivedbedirtdirt bathdirt beddirtbikedirtbirddirtboarddirt-boxdirtbraindirt cakedirt cheapdirt-dauberdirt dauberdirt devildirtendirtfalldirt farmerdirt farmingdirt filedirtfuldirt jumpingdirtlessdirtlikedirtmandirt nap

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dirgedirigibledirtyA1

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