dirt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.

   The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.

2. 2
   noun

   Meanness; sordidness.

   honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy

3. 3
   noun

   Freckles.

   I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.

4. 4
   noun

   Excrement; dung.

   And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fatte closed vpon the blade, so that hee could not drawe the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.

5. 5
   adj

   (of roads) not leveled or drained

6. 6
   noun

   disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

7. 7
   noun

   the state of being covered with unclean things

8. 8
   noun

   the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

Etymology

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”). The word originally referre…