dirt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɜːt/    美 /dɝt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Soil or earth. US,uncountable,usually
  2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. uncountable,usually
  3. Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person. uncountable,usually
    — The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  4. Meanness; sordidness. figuratively,uncountable,usually
    — honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  5. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. uncountable,usually
  6. Freckles. uncountable,usually
    — I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.
  7. Excrement; dung. archaic,uncountable,usually
    — And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fatte closed vpon the blade, so that hee could not drawe the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.
动词 v.
  1. To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty rare,transitive

词形变化

dirts plural durt alternative dirts present,singular,third-person dirting participle,present dirted participle,past dirted past durt alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bedirt common as dirt dig up dirt dirtbag dirt bag dirtball dirt bed dirtbike dirt bike dirtbird dirtboard dirt-box dirtbrain dirt cake dirt cheap dirt-cheap dirt chute dirt dauber dirt-dauber dirt devil dirten dirtfall dirt farmer dirt farming dirt file dirtful dirthead dirthole dirt jumping dirtless dirtlike dirtman dirt nap dirt pie dirt-poor dirt poor dirtproof dirt road dirt sandwich dirtside dirtsome dirt sticks dirt track dirtwad dirty dirt yard dish the dirt dog dirt do someone dirt drag through the dirt dumb as dirt eat dirt fill dirt hit the dirt older than dirt pay dirt permanent dirt pound dirt snirt take a dirt nap throw dirt throw dirt on treat like dirt washdirt white dirt wood dirt

词源

词源 1
From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”).
The word originally referred to excrement before shifting to the current sense of "soil". For a semantic parallel, see Norwegian skitt (“dirt, filth, grime, mud”), from Old Norse skítr (“shit”), which is cognate with English shit.
词源 2
From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”).
The word originally referred to excrement before shifting to the current sense of "soil". For a semantic parallel, see Norwegian skitt (“dirt, filth, grime, mud”), from Old Norse skítr (“shit”), which is cognate with English shit.
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