different between dutty vs durty

English

Etymology

According to one source, from the Twi Akan word dutty (“ground”). Probably reinforced by the English terms dirt, dirty.

Noun

dutty

1. (Jamaican) The ground.
   • 1966, Miss Lou, Dutty Tough

     Rain a fall but dutty tough

Adjective

dutty

1. (Britain, slang) dirty
2. (Jamaican) dirty

References

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English dirty and, possibly, from Akan d?te.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?t?/
• Hyphenation: du?tty

Adjective

dutty

1. dirty, messy, soiled, unclean, nasty

Noun

dutty

1. ground, earth, land, dirt (soil)

Verb

dutty

1. dirty, make dirty, soil, spoil

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 209
• dutty – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

English

Adjective

durty

1. Archaic spelling of dirty.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49:

     "For men in stead of those magnificent Buildings which are seen in the world, could have had no better kind of dwellings then a bigger sort of Bee-hives or Birds-nests, made of contemptible sticks, and straws, and durty morter."

Anagrams

• Trudy, turdy