different between dirtying vs filth
dirtying
English
Verb
dirtying
- present participle of dirty
Noun
dirtying (plural dirtyings)
- A soiling or making dirty.
- 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor
- Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]
- 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor
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filth
English
Etymology
From Middle English filth, from Old English f?lþu, from Proto-West Germanic *f?liþu, equivalent to foul +? -th.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?
Noun
filth (usually uncountable, plural filths)
- Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
- Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Excellency of the Christian Religion
- purifying our souls from the dross and filth of sensual delights
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Excellency of the Christian Religion
- (Britain, derogatory, slang, with definite article) The police.
- (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.
- (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.
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