filth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   disgusting dirt, refuse, or other foul matter

   Years of neglect had left the cellar covered in filth.

2. 2
   noun

   obscene, indecent, or morally offensive language or material

   The editor rejected the message as hateful filth.

From Middle English filth and Old English fylthu, an abstract noun formed from ful, the ancestor of foul, with the suffix that survives as -th. It originally denoted foulness or uncleanness; the word later extended from physical dirt to obscene language and moral corruption.

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