dirt

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• Meanness; sordidness.
• In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
• freckles

Verb

• To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Origin

• From Middle English drit ("excrement"), from Old Norse drit ("excrement"), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ-. Cognate with Norwegian dritt ("excrement"), Icelandic drit ("bird excrement"), Dutch drijten ("to defecate"), drits and dreet, Low German drieten ("to defecate"), Driet, regional German Driss ("shit"), Old English ġedrītan ("to defecate"), Albanian ndyrë ("dirty, filthy").