dirt
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dirt/dɜːt/
▶noun
- 1 a substance, such as mud, that is regarded as dirty.
■ informal excrement: dog dirt.
- 2 loose soil or earth.
- 3 informal scandalous or sordid information.
– phrases
eat dirt informal suffer insults or humiliation.
eat dirt informal suffer insults or humiliation.
– origin ME: from ON drit ‘excrement’.
'dirt' also found in these Oxford entries:
antimacassar
- begrime
- clean
- detergent
- dig
- dirt bike
- dirt cheap
- dirt farmer
- dirt poor
- dirt track
- dish
- feculent
- filth
- gore
- grime
- grunge
- hickey
- ingrained
- mark
- mat
- mire
- muck
- mucker
- mucky
- mudguard
- pay dirt
- rinse
- scour
- scrape
- scum
- scunge
- smut
- speedway
- strigil
- sweep
- sweeping
- track
- wash
- wipe
