Dirt Definition

dûrt

noun

Any unclean or soiling matter, as mud, dust, dung, trash, etc.; filth.

Webster's New World

Earth or garden soil.

Webster's New World

Excrement.

American Heritage

Anything common, filthy, or contemptible.

Webster's New World

A squalid or filthy condition.

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adjective

Having a surface of compacted earth.

A dirt road.

Webster's New World

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verb

Wiktionary

abbreviation

(Ireland) Deposit Interest Retention Tax.

Wiktionary

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Dirt

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), probably from Old Norse drit (“exrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), Icelandic drit (“bird exrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and dreet (“excrement”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”), Albanian ndyrë (“dirty, filthy”).

From Wiktionary
Middle English variant of drit excrement, filth, mud from Old Norse

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition