Definition of Dirt

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Definition of Dirt

Dirt

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.

Meanness; sordidness.

In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

To make foul of filthy; to dirty.

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Dirt Quotations

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mohandas Gandhi

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad

Dirt Translations

dirt in French is crasse
dirt in German is Dreck
dirt in Italian is sudiciume, lordura
dirt in Latin is fimus
dirt in Norwegian is skitt
dirt in Spanish is horrura, suciedad
dirt in Swedish is smuts

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