dirt
English
/dɜːt/, /dɝt/
noun
Definitions
- (chiefly) Soil or earth.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
- (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- freckles
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English drit (excrement) derived from Old Norse drit (excrement) derived from Proto-Germanic *dritą (shit) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd- (have diarrhea).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰreyd-
Gloss
have diarrhea
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bag English
- ball English
- bedirt English
- bedirty English
- bike English
- board English
- dirt-poor English
- dirtbag English
- dirtbaggery English
- dirtball English
- dirtbike English
- dirtboard English
- dirtful English
- dirthead English
- dirtiest English
- dirtieth English
- dirtily English
- dirtiness English
- dirtless English
- dirtlessness English
- dirtlike English
- dirtman English
- dirtproof English
- dirtside English
- dirtsider English
- dirtsome English
- dirtwad English
- dirty English
- dirty-handed English
- dirtybadwrong English
- dirtyish English
- drite English
- head English
- nondirty English
- poor English
- wash English
- washdirt English
- Driss German
- bedrijten Dutch, Flemish
- drijten Dutch, Flemish
- дристать Russian
- *dʰreyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *dritą Proto-Germanic
- *drītaną Proto-Germanic
- ダーティ Japanese
- ダート Japanese
- dirti Middle English
- drit Middle English
- driten Middle English
- drit Old Norse
- *dristati Proto-Slavic
- drit Icelandic
- driten Middle Dutch
- drītan Old Saxon
- udoti Zulu
- drieten Low German
- Dress Central Franconian
- doti Sranan Tongo
- dutty Jamaican Creole
- dɔte Akan
- dotsi Banoni
- bag
- bike
- ball
- head
- poor
- wash
- board
- drite
- dirty
- bedirt
- dirtbag
- dirtily
- dirtwad
- dirtful
- dirtman
- bedirty
- dirtside
- washdirt
- nondirty
- dirthead
- dirtieth
- dirtsome
- dirtyish
- dirtball
- dirtless
- dirtlike
- dirtiest
- dirtbike
- dirtsider
- dirtproof
- dirtboard
- dirtiness
- dirt-poor
- dirtbaggery
- dirtlessness
- dirty-handed
- dirtybadwrong