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dirge
English
Etymology
From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: dûj, IPA(key): /d??d?/
- (US) enPR: dûrj, IPA(key): /d?d?/
- Rhymes: -??(r)d?
Noun
dirge (plural dirges)
- A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
- (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
Synonyms
- lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy
Related terms
- dirgeful
Translations
Verb
dirge (third-person singular simple present dirges, present participle dirging, simple past and past participle dirged)
- To sing dirges
Anagrams
- Ridge, derig, gride, redig, ridge
Middle English
Noun
dirge
- Alternative form of dirige
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dirt
English
Alternative forms
- durt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *drit?, *drit? (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyd-, *treyd?- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ?edr?tan (“to defecate”), Albanian ndyrë (“dirty, filthy”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dû(r)t, IPA(key): /d??t/
- (General American) enPR: dûrt, IPA(key): /d?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Noun
dirt (usually uncountable, plural dirts)
- (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Synonym: filth
- Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
- Synonyms: gossip, kompromat
- (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
- 1810, W. Melmoth (translator), Letters of Pliny
- honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy
- 1810, W. Melmoth (translator), Letters of Pliny
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- freckles
- 1983 Pat Phoenix Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt page 158
- I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.
- 2005 Kevin O'Hara, "Last of the Donkey Pilgrims: A Man's Journey Through Ireland" page 244
- a dirty-faced redhead poked a soiled kerchief beneath my nose, and charmlessly wheedled, "Spare coppers, mister, Spare coppers!" This runny-nosed waif, a "knacker" in the Dublin vernacular, was of the traveling breed who had of late given up their painted wagons for the grimy ghettos of the city. The child -God Bless the Mark- had freckles that splotched her face as though God had applied them too hurriedly with a blunt brush.
- 2016 Lindsay Bowman, To The Girls With Dirt On Their Faces
- Whatever you love about your freckles, they make you unique and beautiful. Don't always feel that you need to clean that dirt off your face with that foundation powder or contour layers. You're naturally beautiful as you are!
- 1983 Pat Phoenix Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt page 158
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
dirt (third-person singular simple present dirts, present participle dirting, simple past and past participle dirted)
- (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
Anagrams
- tri-D
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