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▪ I. filthy, a.|ˈfɪlθɪ|
[f. filth n. + -y1.]
1. a. Full of filth; besmeared or defiled with filth; dirty, foul, nasty, unclean. † the filthy parts: the private parts.
In early use often hardly more emphatic than the mod. dirty; it is now a violent expression of disgust, seldom employed in polite colloquial speech. Cf. the similar development in filth n. 2 b; also in foul a.
1382Wyclif Zech. iii. 3 Jhesus was clothid with filthi clothis. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xcv. (1495) 842 A serpent..louyth fylthi places. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 17 The inhabitantes..haue almost no apparel, couering onely theyr fylthy partes. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxv. (1887) 132 To go home thorough stinking streates, and filthy lanes. 1682Otway Epil. 21 Apr., From the filthy dunghill-faction bred, New-form'd rebellion durst rear up its head. 1712Steele Spect. No. 509 ⁋3 The benches around are so filthy, that no one can sit down. 1832Tennyson Pal. Art 201 In filthy sloughs they roll. 1865Kingsley Herew. xiv, He was filthy and ragged.
†b. Of air or clouds: Murky, thick. Obs.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. iii. 31 The coole and temperate Wind of Grace O're-blowes the filthy and contagious Clouds. 1605― Macb. i. i. 12 Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre.
c. Of weather: extremely unpleasant.
1875L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) xi. 127 It was a most filthy day, pouring hard. 1895‘G. Mortimer’ Tales fr. Western Moors 290 You'm only half a notion o' weather till you'm atop of Darteymoor when 'tis filthy. 1955Times 3 May 5/2 In filthy weather.
2. Fond of filth, delighting in filth.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 18 The fylthy and stynkynge lust of the body. 1635Swan Spec. M. Pref. (1643) 1 Like a filthie flie she seeks all over the body for a soare. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes (ed. 12) 156 The filthy animals that frequent such places.
3. Morally foul or polluted; obscene.
1535Coverdale Zeph. iii. 1 Wo to the abhominable, fylthie and cruel cite. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 49 Ballads..sung to filthy tunes. 1611Bible Col. iii. 8 You also put off all these, anger..filthy communication out of your mouth. 1682Bunyan Holy War 264 Being filthy, arch, and slie they quickly corrupted the families. 1712Addison Spect. No. 271 ⁋4 The Matron..commended the Discretion of the Writer, for having thrown his filthy Thoughts into Greek. 1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 213 From this heaven the filthy one..descends to the earth to tempt and excite to evil. a1897Mod. He could not stand their filthy talk.
4.
†a. Disgraceful, contemptible, low, mean, scurvy, disgusting. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 10362 Neuer so filthy a fare hade fallyn in his hond. 1545Brinklow Compl. xxiv. (1874) 65 Anty⁓chryst had fownd out that fylthy auricular confessyon. 1577–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1805) II. 419 This murther..was one of the most filthiest acts that ever was done. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 79 Doulas, filthy Doulas. 1610Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 166 Taking other errours from other filthie heretiques. 1648Milton Tenure Kings 42 The filthy love of gaine. 1728Vanbr. & Cib. Prov. Husb. v. ii. 97 What's his filthy Name? 1828Scott F.M. Perth xvi, Thou filthy weaver of rotten worsted.
b. filthy lucre: dishonourable gain = Gr. αἰσχρὸν κέρδος (Tit. i. 11). Sometimes jocularly used for: Money; also absol. ‘The filthy’.
1526–34Tindale Titus i. 11 Teachinge thinges which they ought not, because of filthy lucre. 1680Hickeringill Meroz 30. 1709 Addison Tatler No. 116 ⁋7, I did not make that Judgment for the Sake of filthy Lucre. 1855Trollope Warden xi. 175 No man lived less addicted to filthy lucre than the warden. 1877Blackmore Cripps (1887) 225, I can catch my own without any appeal to ‘the Filthy’. 1928A. Huxley Let. 19 July (1969) 301 A considerable sale..and a corresponding quantity of filthy lucre. 1931Wodehouse If I were You ii. 27 Just trying to make a bit of the filthy.
5. quasi-n. A filthy person.
1681Otway Soldiers Fort. i. i, Damn'd Whores, hout ye filthies.
6. quasi-adv. = filthily.
1616Rich Cabinet 93 b, Modesty shutteth a young mans lippes..so that he will not talke filthy. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xi. 180 Which makes them shew filthy fine. 1843Knickerbocker XXI. 122 His trousers [were] ‘filthy dirty’ and pulled up above the tops of his boots. 1940M. Banning Enough to live On ix. 168 He's filthy rich and didn't earn a cent of it. 1954J. B. Priestley Magicians ii. 28, I organise these parties for her—she's filthy rich. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 1/3 He told me he was filthy rich.
7. Comb.
1823in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 318 Filthy-looking people. 1824J. Symmons tr. Agamem. æsch. 70 Where filthy-handed Mammon dwells. 1946R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby 125 Filthy tempered woman.
▪ II. filthy, v.|ˈfɪlθɪ|
[f. the adj.]
trans. To make filthy.
1917J. Masefield Old Front Line v. 67 All this mess of heaps and hillocks is strung and filthied over with broken bodies and ruined gear. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid iii. 60 They tear the banquet to pieces, filthying all with their bestial Touch. 1967‘La Meri’ Sp. Dancing (ed. 2) xi. 137 Cigarette butts and spilled liquids filthied the floor. |