Dirty

Definition: Dirty

Dirty

Adjective

1. Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves".

2. (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth".

3. Vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor".

4. Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout".

5. Contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen.

6. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair".

7. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy".

8. Obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains".

9. Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks".

10. : violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior".

11. : unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign".

12. : unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing".

Verb

1. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dirty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dirty

Bubble

Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead.

Disrepute

Ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base; (dishonorable).

Flatterer

Toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on; (servility).

Government

Negative campaigning, dirty politics, smear campaign.

Improbity

Contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one.

Servility

Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.

Pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of.

Ugliness

Foul; (dirty); dingy; (colorless); gaudy; (color); disfigured; Verb: discolored.

Uncleanness

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy.

Unskillfulness

Mistake; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick; put the saddle on the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old bottles.

Wind

Windiness .Adjective: ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall.

Crosswords: Dirty

This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman)

I'm sorry all I heard was blah blah blah I'm a dirty tramp (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

Who do you think you are, Clint Eastwood? Dirty Rosewood (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs)

Well, I took a couple of dirty pictures, so kill me. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

I bet you did, you dirty bitch (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

They love dirty laundry (Dirty Laundry; performing artist: Don Henley)

Dirty Diana, No (Dirty Diana; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson)

No more teacher's dirty looks (School's Out; performing artist: Alice Cooper)

His dirty clothes are all he gives to her (Flavor of the Weak; performing artist: American Hi-Fi)

I told you dirty jokes until you smiled (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Dusty bibles lead to dirty lives. (references; author: unknown)

Keen Sense Of Humor: Knows a lot of dirty jokes. (references; author: unknown)

Parental Observation: A child will not spill on a dirty floor. (references; author: unknown)

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it. (references; author: unknown)

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)

Dirty Book Shoppe (1974)

The Dirty Dolls (1974)

Dirty Little Billy (1972)

Dirty Diana (performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Dirty Filthy Rock N Roll (performing artist: Painters & Dockers)

Dirty Water (performing artist: The Standells)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dirty White Boys (reference)

• Notes of a Dirty Old Man (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dirty Goat (reference)

• Dirty Linen (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Dirty Dozen (reference)

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dirty Third 2: Home Sweet Home (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Dirty Harry (reference)

• Three Dirty Dwarves (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Russian poster: Series "One Must Live Cleanly"; Wash your dirty linens with soap and iron them with a hot iron...]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"The first swimming call": Crewmen swim over the battleship's side after coaling, circa 1913. Note dirty faces of swimmers, and whaleboat standing by on lifeguard duty. Photographed by Sargent. Credit: NAVY.

Coaling from a schooner, 1898. Though deteriorated, this photo shows an activity that was a frequent, and very dirty, reality of Spanish-American War naval operations. Credit: NAVY.

No, she cannot be dirty. Credit: Library of Congress.

'Teddy and I have a very good relationship--I get to do the dirty work and he gets to ride up there and look good!'. Credit: Library of Congress.

Democratic dirty linen!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Philip Bosco as physicist Niels Bohr in "Copenhagen" and Claudia Shear as Mae West in "Dirty Blonde" / Hirschfeld 5. Credit: Library of Congress.

Backyard of house near the House office building, showing privy on extreme right with water supply between privy and ice box. This is an alley dwelling and these tiny, overcrowded, dirty backyards are characteristic of this section. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dirty clothes and flies. American River camp, near Sacramento, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

In this we trust : the women of the world are serving notice! : we want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She would go out with a dirty cap.

He had wandered into a maze of narrow and dirty streets

And he left his black hat there, broken and dirty.

Often the poor man is not so cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Getting a tattoo or body piercing with unsterilized, dirty tools. (references)

Anyone who is exposed to environments where raccoons live is potentially at risk. Young children and developmentally disabled persons are at highest risk for infection because they spend time outdoors and they may put dirty fingers or objects into their mouths. (references)

Business

For hauling dirty, bulky or heavy stuff, Belgians prefer using trailers. (references)

In recent years, small Japanese firms requiring difficult manual labor or work in dirty or hazardous environments have been finding it increasingly hard to attract employees. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

For example, as punishment, women were held in a cage made of iron bars and wire; the NGO observers noted that the cage floor was dirty with human excrement. (references)

Brazil

The report cited many examples of understaffed and poorly administered hospitals, substandard living conditions for many patients, and severely overcrowded and dirty facilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

They then handed Lakpe over to gendarmes who took Lakpe and his bodyguard to the Koumassi Camp Commando where the gendarmes beat them with their belts, made them swim in dirty water, and insulted them for supporting Ouattara. (references)

Economic History

Paraguay

The Rodriguez and Wasmosy administrations eliminated foreign exchange controls and implemented a dirty floating exchange rate system, reformed the tax structure and established tax incentives to attract investment, reduced tariff levels, launched a stock market, and began a process of financial reform. (references)

Human Rights

Argentina

These laws protected those accused of past human rights abuses during the dirty war. (references)

Cameroon

The Yaounde prison was so dirty that the Minister ordered the immediate release of funds for repainting. (references)

Political Economy

PARAGUAY

The Central Bank practices a dirty float, with periodic interventions aimed at stabilizing the guarani. (references)

Argentina

The last period of military rule (known as the Dirty War) was marked by severe political repression and violence with more than 15,000 persons who "disappeared," mostly victims of the military regime. (references)

Trade

Guatemala

In early 1994, BANGUAT moved to a dirty float; BANGUAT still intervenes in the foreign exchange market to prevent sharp movements in the exchange rate. (references)

Travel

Haiti

Privately operated taxicabs and other public transportation vehicles are usually dirty, crowded, and of questionable reliability. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Dirty

Dirty

Expressions using "dirty": a dirty dog ♦ be dirty ♦ become dirty ♦ becoming dirty ♦ dirty bastard ♦ dirty bill of lading ♦ dirty business ♦ dirty clothes ♦ dirty configuration ♦ dirty dealings ♦ dirty dishes ♦ dirty dog ♦ dirty foreigner ♦ dirty gas ♦ dirty joke ♦ dirty linen ♦ dirty literature ♦ dirty mark ♦ dirty money ♦ dirty night ♦ dirty old man ♦ dirty one's pants ♦ dirty oneself ♦ dirty pig ♦ dirty politics ♦ dirty power ♦ dirty sky ♦ dirty slob ♦ dirty story ♦ dirty swine ♦ dirty trick ♦ dirty tricks ♦ dirty waste stream ♦ dirty word ♦ dirty work ♦ do the dirty ♦ do the dirty on ♦ do the dirty on smb. ♦ do the dirty work of ♦ get dirty ♦ make dirty ♦ making dirty ♦ play a dirty trick on smb. ♦ sickeningly dirty ♦ talk dirty ♦ wash one's dirty linen at home ♦ wash one's dirty linen in public ♦ you dirty rat!. Additional references.

Beginning with "dirty": dirty-colourful, dirty-finger, dirty-grey, dirty-intentioned, dirty-laundry, dirty-linen, dirty-looking, dirty-minded, dirty-nailed, dirty-never, dirty-nosed, dirty-phonecall, dirty-pink, dirty-sock-washing, dirty-tricks, dirty-weekend, dirty-yellow.

Ending with "dirty": dawn-dirty, down-and-dirty, paraphernalia-dirty, quick-and-dirty.

Containing "dirty": extremely-dirty-white-coloured.

Afrikaans

vuil (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Albanian

laparos, i fëlliqur (contaminated, dirt, disgraceful, filthy, grimy, lewd, lousy, mean, mourning, muddy, sludgy, squalid), i ndotë (grimy, polluted), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), i pahijshëm (bad, fie-fie, graceless, improper, indecent, indecorous, obscene, unbecoming, unchristian, unseemly, wry), i palarë (grubby, unclean, unwashed), i pandershëm (base, conscienceless, dark, devious, dishonest, disreputable, ill gotten, knavish, mean, rascally, raw, roguish, unfaithful, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike), i pistë (bawdy, dingy, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste), fëlliq (bedraggle, besmear, blur, bring in the mire, contaminate, daub, defile, draggle, foul, mire, pollute, soil), i stuhishëm (blusterous, blustery, brash, gusty, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thundery, turbulent), qelbanik (heel, louse), laturis (besmear, daub, soil), leros (smear, soil), ndot (bedaub, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, defile, disgust, foul, grime, pollute, repugnance, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splash), ndyj (bedraggle, besmear, besmirch, contaminate, foul, plaster, pollute, soil, sully), pëgëj (pollute), papastër (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean), pis (begrimed, messy, piggishly, smeary), i qelbur (dead, fetid, foetid, mangy, nasty, noisome, putrid, stinking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏داكن (blackish, dark, deep, dingy, dusky, leaden, sad, swarthy), ‏دنيء (shabby, sordid, vile, villainous), ‏إتسخ (become dirty, soil), ‏عاصف (boisterous, gusty, inclement, rough, squally, stormy, surging, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, tumultuous, unruly, wild, winded, windy, wintry), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏بذيء (filthy, improper, impure, indecent, nasty, naughty, ribald, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, vulgar), ‏تلوث (become defiled, contamination, dirtiness, foul, impurity, infection, pollution, soil, stain, taint, tarnish), ‏فاحش (bawdy, filthy, obscene, ribald, shameless, vulgar), ‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏لوث (bedaub, befoul, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, degrade, discredit, file, foul, pollute, smear, smirch, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), ‏متسخ, ‏ملوث (contaminated, defiled, filed, foul, impure, infectious, polluted, polluter, spotted, staining), ‏كثير الأخطاء, ‏سافل (black sheep, immoral, low, mean, pedestrian, raffish, varmint). (various references)

Basque

zikin. (various references)

Bulgarian 

нецензурен (fie-fie, hot, lewd, obscene, raunchy, raw, ribald, rich, ripe, smoking room, unquotable), изкалян, изцапвам (bedraggle, draggle, foul, mess, slush), изцапвам се (draggle, foul), плескам (bespatter, soil, spatter), подъл (base, blackguardly, caitiff, creeping, dastardly, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dirt, dishonorable, dishonourable, jesuitic, jesuitical, low, low down, low-minded, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, recreant, reptile, scurvy, shabby, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, snide, vile, villainous), бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed, wild), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious, virulent), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), дразнещ (abrasive, exasperating, harassing, irritant, irritating, irritative, jarring, pestiferous, provocative, raspy, trying, vexatious), мърся (grime, pollute), кирлив (filthy, grimy), нечист (drossy, foul, impure, slatternly, turbid, unclean, uncleanly, unwashed), нечистоплътен (uncleanly), оплескан (messy, mucky, muddy), омърсявам (befoul, besmirch, muck, slubber, smirch, soil), омърсявам се (become dirty, soil), оцапан (grubby, messy, mucky, smudgy, smutty), оцапвам (muddy, slubber, smear, soil, splotch, stain), очерням (blacken, cloud, denigrate, slander, vilify), мърляв (grubby, raunchy, scrubby, scruffy, slatternly, slipshod, slovenly). (various references)

Catalan

brut (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Chinese 

骯髒 (filthy), 骯 (filthy), 齪 (small-minded), 齷 (small-minded), 臟臟 , 臟 (filthy, viscera), 髒 , 肮脏 (Dirtiness, foul, grimy), 混 (confused, mix, thoughtless, to get along, to mix). (various references)

Czech

špinavý (black, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty, grubby, impure, messy, murky, nasty, seamy, slovenly, smutty, sordid, squalid, unclean). (various references)

Danish

snavset (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Dutch

vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), vies (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean), smerig (filthy, foul, nasty, soiled, unclean), onrein (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean), morsig (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Esperanto

sordida (foul, nasty), malpura (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Faeroese

skitin (filthy, foul, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Farsi 

چرکین (Lousy), چرک (Dingy, Dirt, Frowzy, Guck, Impure, Lymph, Pus, Puss, Slag, Sordid, Squawk), کثیف کردن (Soil), کثیف (Amiss, Draggy, Grimy, Impure, Lousy, Messy, Mussy, Nasty, Sloppy, Sordid, Squawk). (various references)

Finnish

likainen (filthy, impure, soiled, unclean). (various references)

French

sale. (various references)

Frisian

fiis (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

German

schmutzig (dingily, dingy, disgusting, filthily, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, grimy, lewd, messy, mucky, muddy, nastily, smuttily, smutty, soiled, sordid, sordidly, splotchy, squalid, turbid, unclean, unwholesome), dreckig (cruddy, filthy, messy, mucky, raunchily, scruffy). (various references)

Greek 

βρώμικοσ (filthy, grubby, mucky, scruffy, scummy, smudgy), βρώμικος (filthy, grimy, squalid), μαγαρίζω (defile, pollute, soil), λερώνω (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, defile, foul, grime, moil, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, stain, sully), λερωμένος, ακάθαρτος (filthy). (various references)

Hawaiian

papastër (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלוכלך (dungy, foul, grimy, grubby, messy, nasty, smutty, soiled, sordid, unclean), מזוהם (contaminated, filthy, infected, nasty, polluted, septic, soiled), מסואב (contaminated, filthy, polluted, soiled), ללכלך (befoul, daub, foul, grime, muck, smirch, smudge, soil, stain, sully), דלוח (befouling, filthy, foul, muddy, polluted, pollution, turbid), געול (abhorrence, loathing, nausea, unclean), סאוב (defiled, sullied), נאלח (contaminated, infected, polluted, rotten, stained), נבזי (lubricious, mean, nasty). (various references)

Hungarian

piszkos (crappy, dingy, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy), koszos (begrimed, crappy, epochal, foul, grimy, lousy, mangy, scabby, scabious, scruffy). (various references)

Indonesian

mesum (bawdy, immoral, indecent, obscene), kumuh, kotor (dingy, grimy, grubby, mucky, unclean), comot (filthy, grimy, nab, seize, snatch off), cemong (scratched, soiled), cemomot, cemar (besmirched, blackened, filthe, soiled). (various references)

Irish

salach (filthy, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Italian

sporco (dingy, filthy, foul, grubby, mucky, nasty, scruff, smutty, soiled), insudiciare (befoul, begrime, dirty oneself, get dirty, pollute, smudge, soil, stain), imbrattare (bedaub, besmirch, daub, maculate, smudge, soil, stain). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

汚濁 (corruption, graft, polluted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おだく (corruption, graft, polluted), きたない (filthy, unclean), うすぎたない (drab, filthy), ふけつ (filthy, impure, unclean), いやらしい (detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, indecent, lascivious, lewd, repulsive, unpleasant), えげつない (nasty, vulgar). (various references)

Korean 

더러운 (foul, grubby, messy, scummy). (various references)

Manx

trustyragh (mucky, rubbishy, trashy), sollaghey (assault, assault sexually, begrime, besmear, besmirch, contaminate, contamination, defile, defilement, grime, muck, muddy, pollute, pollution, soil, soiling, stain, sully), sollagh (filthy, grimy, grotty, grubby, sordid, unclean), sallaghey (soiling), neuglen (bawdy, imperfect), doo (black, black headed, black-haired, bold, dark, ink, inky, negroid, sable), broighey (befoul, contamination, dunging, pollute, soil), broigh (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean), broghe, brebanagh. (various references)

Maya

keekenchah (to get dirty). (various references)

Norwegian

skitten (filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Occitan

lord. (various references)

Papiamen

sushi (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean), fis (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Pig Latin

irtyday.(various references)

Portuguese

sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed). (various references)

Romanian

obscen (bawdy, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, indelicate, lewd, lickerish, nasty, obscene, obscenely, ribald, scurrilous, smutty), feşteli (damage), indecent (blue, free and easy, gross, hoggish, immodestly, improper, indecent, lewd, naughty, racy, unprintable, unseemly), jegos (filthy, soiled), josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, grovelling, grubby, infamous, little, low, low-minded, mean, meanly, nasty, paltry, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, slavish, sordid, sordidly, vile), mânjit (foul, smutty), mârşav (despicable, grovelling, infamous, mean, scummy, shameful, skunk), mizerabil (abject, despicable, godforsaken, grovelling, miserable, miserably, pitiable, unlucky, villainous, wretch, wretched), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), necinstit (crooked, dishonest, dishonestly, disingenuous, faithless, foul, fraudulent, knavish, knavishly, low down, meretricious, perfidious, raw, rotten, unfair, unfaithful, unlawful), ancrasa (clog, foul, soil), nespãlat (cad, caddish, unwashed), zoios, plin de noroi (miry, muddy, splashy), se murdãri (foul), se pãta (spot, stain), soios (greasy, grimy, grubby, mangy), spurca (besmear, besmirch, defile, desecrate, smear, smirch, soil, taint, vitiate), spurcat (base, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, soiled, vile), terfeli (defile), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), negru (black, blackened, Brown, coon, dark, dirtiness, foul, ghost writer, grimy, hidden, jim crow, negro, penny-a-liner, sable, sun-burnt, swarthy, tawny, wicked). (various references)

Russian 

грязный (crummy, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious). (various references)

Scottish

salach (filthy, foul, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uprljati (become dirty, begrime, defile, draggle, foul, smirch, taint), ukaljati (become defiled, befoul, mire, soil, stain, sully), prljav (dingy, drossy, feculent, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, muck, mucky, scurvy, sordid, squalid, unclean), prljati (slubber, soil, sully), štrokav. (various references)

Spanish

sucio (crummy, dingy, feculent, filthy, foul, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, nasty, soiled, unclean, unfairly, unwashed), verde (bawdy, green, greeny, low, lower, naughty, rude, undeveloped, verdant), ensuciar (bedraggle, befoul, besmirch, defile, foul, litter, mess, mess up, pollute, soil). (various references)

Sranan

doti (earth, fertilizer, filthy, land, manure, nasty, soil, soiled, unclean), morsu (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean), fisti (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Swedish

smutsig (crummy, dingy, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, mucky, nasty, soiled, sordid, squalid, unclean), oren (filthy, foul, impure, unclean). (various references)

Tagalog

marumí (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Thai

ไม่พอใจ, สกปรก (cacky, foul, grubby, grungy, mucky, sleazy, sordid, squalid), ทำให้สกปรก (foul, sully), ลามก (obscene, randy, risque). (various references)

Turkish

kirletmek (bedaub, befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, foul, foul up, grime, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), edepsiz (immodest, indecent, nasty, naughty, rude, shameless), fırtınalı (angry, boisterous, gusty, heavy, inclement, intemperate, nasty, rough, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, ugly, wild), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy), kirlenmek (be polluted, be soiled, become dirty, draggle, foul, smudge, soil, stain), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), kirli (bedraggled, dingy, draggled, filthy, grimy, grubby, impure, smudgy, soiled, spotted, squalid, unclean, venose, venous), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), müstehcen (bawdy, blue, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), muzur, pis (augean, black, dingy, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), pislenmek (become dirty, foul, smear), pisletmek (befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, grime, make a mess of, make dirty, mess, muck, smutch, soil), rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), kírlí (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Turkmen 

kirli (filthy, muddy), kirletmek (soil, stain), hapalamak, hapa (dirt, mud, trash). (various references)

Ukrainian

непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), непогожий, низький (base, bass, low, low down, niddering, short), бруднитися (smear, smudge, soil), бруднити (befoul, begrime, bespatter, blur, daub, discolor, discolour, foul, mess up, muck, muss, smear, smudge, soil, sully), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dơ dáy; cáu ghét, dơ bẩn (dirtily), thô bỉ đê tiện (dirtily), nhơ nhốc, hèn hạ (abject, base, basely, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dishonourable, meanly, picayune, poor, scabbily, scurvy, shabby, vile), cáu bẩn (dingy), bẩn thỉu (crummy, dirtily, filthy, grubby, messy, miry, mucky, sordid, villainous), đầy bùn bẩn có mưa gió sụt sùi, đáng khinh (contemptible, picayune, scaly, scurvy, threepenny, unworthy). (various references)

Welsh

brwnt (filthy, foul, harsh, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Yucatec

eek' (filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

hispidus, immunda, inmunda, inmundae, inmundam, inmundas, inmunde, inmundi, inmundis, inmundo, inmundorum, inmundos, inmundum, inmundus, lino, polluam, polluamini, polluamus, polluant, polluantur, polluat, polluatis, polluatur, polluent, polluentur, polluerat, polluere, polluerent, pollueretur, polluerint, polluerit, pollueritis, polluerunt, pollues, polluet, polluetur, pollui, polluimini, polluimus, polluisti, polluistis, polluit, polluitur, polluta, pollutae, polluti, pollutio, pollutione, pollutum, pollutus, pollutusque, sordida, sordidam, sordidis, sordido, sordidos, sordidum, sordidus. (various references)

nestig. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dirty": dirtying. (additional references)

Words ending with "dirty": bedirty. (additional references)

Words containing "dirty": bedirtying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dirty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dairty, Dartry, darty, dertz, Dervy, diaty, dibry, dicty, dietey, dieti, dietie, diety, dinty, dipty, dirdy, dirsy, dirth, dirts, dirtys, Diruta, dirvy, diry, disty, diti, ditra, dity, dixty, Dmitrij, Dmitriy, doirtie, doity, dorty, Dortyol, drit, dryt, durty, Durutti, girty. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dirt, tidy, yird.

-2 letters: dit, dry, rid, try, yid.

-3 letters: id, it, ti.

+1 letter: drifty.

+2 letters: aridity, bedirty, crudity, dietary, dirtily, dithery, satyrid, tardily, thirdly, thyroid, tindery, tiredly, tripody.

+3 letters: acridity, additory, adroitly, auditory, banditry, birthday, botryoid, caryatid, cityward, deviltry, dilatory, directly, dirtying, draftily, drypoint, elytroid, heredity, idolatry, industry, intraday, midstory, podiatry, punditry, putridly, rabidity, rapidity, rigidity, satyrids, sturdily, tawdrily, thyreoid, thyroids, thyrsoid, tiltyard, torpidly, torridly, trendily, turbidly, turgidly, viridity.