dirt
dirt is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.
- 2.In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. Dirt bed (Geom.), a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures. -- Dirt eating. (a) The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia. -- Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. Otway (1684). -- To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.
- 3.To make foul of filthy; to dirty. Swift.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- admission
- and
- bargain
- birthmark
- blain
- blemish
- blobber
- blobber-lipped
- bloodshot
- blot
- blotch
- blubber
- blur
- bon
- buy
- catchpenny
- charge
- cheap
- cheapness
- come
- cost
- costless
- deadhead
- defect
- deformity
- depreciation
- deterioration
- discolored
- disfigure
- disfigurement
- dog
- down
- drug
- excrescence
- expense
- expenseless
- eyesore
- fall
- flaw
- for
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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