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单词 dirt
释义 dirt
I. \ˈdə]t, ˈdə̄], ˈdəi], usu ]d.+V\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: alteration of Middle English drit, from Old Norse, excrement; akin to Old English drītan to defecate, Old High German trīzan, Old Norse drīta to defecate, Latin foria diarrhea, Serbian driskati to have diarrhea, Lithuanian derkti to defecate
1.
 a. excrement
  < warm steamy knobbles of sheep dirt getting crushed between my toes — Janet Frame >
 b. : mud or waste matter mixed with water
  < in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt — Jane Austen >
 c. : a foul or filthy substance that by adhering to a thing makes it unclean or foul
  < the crew gutted the catch and hosed the dirt through the scuppers >
 especially : an accumulation of dust, grit, refuse, waste, or litter
  < how to remove … dirt consisting of dust, pollen, and sooty particles — Pliotron >
  < under its accumulated rust and dirt of five centuries — G.G.Coulton >
 d. : grime, spot, or stain resulting from travel, work, a fall, or other ordinary experience or from use
  < a chance to wash the dirt off his face >
  < guaranteed to remove dirt from upholstery >
 e. archaic : something worthless
  < is yellow dirt the passion of thy life? — Alexander Pope >
 f. : a person to be treated with contempt
  < he's got beautiful manners. Doesn't chuck the stuff at you as if you were dirt like young Willis — Dorothy Sayers >
 g. : visible foreign matter that disfigures finished paper
2.
 a.
  (1) : earth, ground : loose or packed soil or sand
   < tons of rock and dirt slid into the canal >
   < replacing dirt roads with macadam >
  (2) : the surface of the ground
   < alarmed at the first sound we hit the dirt >
 b. : land as property
  < a rare good little farm; a sound bit of dirt that is, sir — Adrian Bell >
 c. : a substance that is dug or comes from the earth
  < mining gold by means of dirt washing >
 d.
  (1) : alluvial earth, gravel, and similar material in placer mining
  (2) : broken ore and in coal mines slate and other foreign matter
 e. dialect England : foul or flammable mine air
3.
 a. : an abject or filthy state : squalor
  < ignorance and dirt are not necessary concomitants of poverty >
 b. : moral, obliquity : corruption, chicanery
  < the dirt of jealousy >
  < there's more dirt to be uncovered at the capital >
 c. : moral uncleanness; especially : licentiousness of language or theme
  < this leaves a rather amorphous concept of what obscenity may be … . Its one essential quality is dirt for dirts sake — Curtis Bok >
  < a quite mistaken belief that to make his reader smell dirt is realism — H.J.Laski >
 d. : common scandalous gossip about discreditable personal behavior; especially : malicious or slanderous gossip
  < a writer as much interested in writing dirt as in reporting the news >
 e. : suppressed information whose disclosure would be highly damaging
  < he thought … investigations should be started only after the most careful consideration and when there was real prospect of turning up dirt — Vance Johnson >
 f. : an underhanded or despicable trick — used as the object of do
  < wanting to do him dirt, she sent his wife a poison-pen letter >
4. : dirty weather
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
1. archaic : to make foul : dirty
 < don't dog's-ear nor dirt them — R.H.Barham >
2. : to cover with dirt; especially : to draw soil up around the base of
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