dirty
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dirty/ˈdɜːti/
▶adjective (dirtier, dirtiest)
- 1 covered or marked with a substance that causes a mark, stain, or contamination; not clean.
■ (of a nuclear weapon) producing considerable radioactive fallout.
- 2 lewd; obscene.
- 3 dishonest; dishonourable.
- 4 (of weather) rough and stormy.
– phrases
do the dirty on Brit. informal cheat or betray.
get one's hands dirty (or dirty one's hands) do manual, menial, or other hard work.
play dirty informal act in a dishonest or unfair way.
do the dirty on Brit. informal cheat or betray.
get one's hands dirty (or dirty one's hands) do manual, menial, or other hard work.
play dirty informal act in a dishonest or unfair way.
– derivatives
dirtily adverb,
dirtiness noun.
dirtily adverb,
dirtiness noun.
'dirty' also found in these Oxford entries:
bedabble
- befoul
- besmirch
- bilge
- bus
- change
- crud
- crummy
- dirt
- dirty bomb
- dirty look
- dirty old man
- dirty weekend
- dirty word
- dirty work
- down
- drabble
- draggle
- filthy
- fingermark
- fleapit
- foul
- grime
- grot
- grubby
- guck
- insanitary
- kip
- manky
- mess
- messy
- murky
- patrol
- pig
- pigsty
- quick
- ragamuffin
- scruffy
- scullery
- shop-soiled
- slattern
- sloven
- slovenly
- sludge
- smirch
- soil
- sordid
- squalid
- squalor
