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Antonyms for dirt
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : durt |
Phonetic Transcription : dɜrt |
Definition of dirt
Origin :- 15c. metathesis of Middle English drit, drytt "mud, dirt, dung" (c.1300), from Old Norse drit, cognate with Old English dritan "to void excrement," from Proto-Germanic *dritanan (cf. Dutch drijten, Old High German trizan).
- Used abusively of persons from c.1300. Meaning "gossip" first attested 1926 (in Hemingway); dirt bike is 1960s. Dirt-cheap is from 1821. Dirt road attested by 1852.
- noun grime, impurity
- noun obscenity; immorality
- noun soil
- noun gossip
- They were putting on outer clothes from the store-room to protect them from the dirt and damp.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Dick, vaguely conscious of damp and dirt, went up to his bedroom.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- But ye kin ride, b'y; so dirt don't count; clean ridin's the thing.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- We worked in gangs of six, digging and passing up the dirt into the night-tubs.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- In some places there are high mounds of dirt outside the city wall.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- "I'm taking comfort," he muttered, with his mouth in the dirt.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- An' then there was pomegranates an' cherubim, an' as for silver an' gold, they were as common as dirt.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- "Dirt don't stick to you, Mr. Oldfield," once said a seeking widow.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- There is not a grain of dirt upon my hands or my face or my body.
- Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
- On every story there was the same destitution, dirt, and promiscuity.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for dirt
- buzz
- chicanery
- clay
- crud
- double-dealing
- dreck
- dregs
- dust
- earth
- excrement
- feculence
- filth
- filthiness
- fourberie
- fraud
- gook
- ground
- gunk
- indecency
- intimate intelligence
- juicy morsel
- loam
- lubricity
- mire
- muck
- mud
- news
- pornography
- real estate
- rottenness
- rumor
- scuz
- sleaze
- slime
- smudge
- smut
- soil
- stain
- talk
- tarnish
- terra firma
- the lowdown
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