dirt
/dɝt/ noun B1- Soil or earth.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person. · The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- Meanness; sordidness.
- In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Freckles.
Plural dirts
From the library
“Yes, and throw branches and dirt at old Baloo,” Mowgli went on.
How was I to guess he would play with such dirt.
So he sang a very mournful song that he made up on the spur of the minute, and just as he got to the most touching part, the grass quivered again, and Rikki-tikki, covered with dirt, dragged himself out of the hole leg by leg, licking his whiskers.
One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt.
Learn dirt in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.