Meaning

5 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

    Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.

    a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

  2. (uncountable, usually)Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

    He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.

  3. (derogatory, uncountable, usually)A vile or disgusting person.

  4. (US, dated, uncountable, usually)Weeds growing on pasture land.

    Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

  5. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable)The police.

    We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived.

    Schmutz, Dreck

    грязьgrjazʹ, нечистота́nečistotá

    брудbrud

Examples

12 sentences
  1. What type of filth is this?

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  2. What the hell is this filth?

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  3. There's a lot of filth in this city.

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  4. What in the name of filth is this?

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  5. Everything was coated in a layer of filth.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
dirt:
Русский
By meaning 1
dirt:
Deutsch
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dirt:

Origin

From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equiv

From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).

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Forms

plural: filths
Singularfilth

uncountable

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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