dirty

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

verb make soiled, filthy, or dirty
adjective soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
adjective (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency

From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”). See also drite.

They were squalid, dirty, uninteresting. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
She has to wash slimy dishes and dirty clothes. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
The tavern was dirty and wretched, not even second-rate. — Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

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