Filth

Definition: Filth

Filth

Noun

1. The state of being covered with unclean things.

2. A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse.

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

Date "filth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Filth

Uncleanness

Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle.

Crosswords: Filth

Either that, or they've got a little hang-up about lying face-down in filth. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You spent half your life out there in filth and degradation (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

But do you know they will not even let us have it? Can you believe it? Why? Man! He likes to create a stink! I mean, I've seen filth that you wouldn't believe (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson)

You call God's greatest gift ourselves, our yearning, our need to love you call it filth and sin and heresy (Dangerous Beauty; writing credit: Jeannine Dominy)

The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals (Zardoz; writing credit: John Boorman)

Filth marked jeans, take that off (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z)

I'm a lyrical lover no take me for no filth (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

The Filth Shop (1969)

Filth Files 2: Dick Worthy (2000)

The Filth and the Fury (2000)

Far Beyond Filth 3 (1999)

Filth (1996)

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Books

• Filth (reference)

• Filth - CD (reference)

• Filth Eater (reference)

• Principles of Food Analysis for Filth, Decomposition and Foreign Matter (reference)

• The Big Book of Filth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Filth and the Fury - A Sex Pistols Film (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Filth & Fire (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Yaws is the disease of poverty and filth. : The first victims are always the children. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Paul Almasy..

Lo, the fell monster with the deadly sting who passes mountains, breaks through fenced walls and firm embattled spears, and with his filth taints all the world - Dante's Inferno. Credit: Library of Congress.

Typical bedroom in Negro slum, Washington, D.C. A bed, one chair, and a possible bit of furniture for a bureau is usually the most such a bedroom can boast. Filth and vermin are as characteristic of this type of dwelling as the falling plaster shown here. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

The filth comports itself decently

A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth.

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Expressions using "filth": Filth disease ♦ load of filth. Additional references.

Beginning with "filth": filth-caked, filth-century, filth-dwellers, filth-encrusted, filth-mongers, filth-preference, filth-talk.

Albanian

fëlliqësi (contamination, defilement, dirt, filthiness, slime, villainy), pisllëk (dirt, muck, smut, squalor), ndyrësi (crap, dirt, dirtiness, enormity, filthiness, muck, ordure, piggishness, salacity), lapërdhi (foul language, lecherousness, lechery, scurrility). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فحش (obscenity, ribaldry), ‏نتانة (fetidness, infection, mephitis, stench, stink), ‏قذارة (dirt, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, impurity, infection, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness), ‏رجس (atrocity, be dirty, dirt, squalor), ‏بذاءة (bawdiness, dirt, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, sordidness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разврат (debaucheries, debauchery, depravation, filthiness, fornication, immorality, laxity, lechery, profligacy, riot), кир (dirt, grime), неприлични думи, мръсотия (beastliness, dirt, dirtiness, foulness, grime, impurity, mess, muck, mud, obscenity, offscourings, ordure, squalor), мръсотии (balderdash). (various references)

Chinese 

穢 (dirt), 秽, 污 (dirt). (various references)

Czech

špína (dirt, filthiness, grime, impurity, soil, squalor). (various references)

Danish

snavs (dirt). (various references)

Dutch

vuiligheid (dirt), vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), viezigheid (dirt), smurrie (dirt), smeerlapperý (dirt), smeerboel (dirt). (various references)

Faeroese

skittur (dirt, mud). (various references)

Finnish

törky (dirt, garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash), saastaisuus (foulness, sordidness), saasta (impurity, taint), lika (dirt). (various references)

French

ordure. (various references)

German

unrat (dirt, ordure, refuse), schmutz (dirt, dirtiness, dung, grime, grimes, muck, mud, ordure, smudginess, smut, sordidness, squalor), dreck (dirt, jam, mess, muck, muckiness, mud, raunchiness, rubbish, scruffiness, smut). (various references)

Greek 

ρύποσ (dirt, grime), ρυπαρογραφήματα (smut), βρώμα (dirt, fetish, stench, stink), βωμολοχία (scurrility), μουρνταριά (dirtiness, wantoness), χυδαιολογία (vulgar language), λέρα (dirtiness, grime, soil, speck, splotch), ακαθαρσία (dirt, impureness, impurity, lousiness, ordure, soil). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכלוך (dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, nastiness, soiling, sordidness, squalor, stain), פ�'ול (abomination, stench), חלא�" (dirt, refuse), זו�"מ�" (foulness, impurity, scum, squalor), �"ליחות (pollution, turbidity), ט� ופת (dirt, filthiness, foulness, muck), ט� וף (dirt), צוא�" (dung, excrement, faeces, ordure, stool, turd), סוח�" (dung, garbage, rubbish), סחי (dirt, dung, rubbish), � בול (disgust, obscenity, repulsiveness, withered). (various references)

Hungarian

piszok (black, bleeding, blemish, crap, crock, dirt, dreck, grime, grunch, grunge, gunk, muck, scuz, scuzz, smudge), erkölcstelenség (bawdiness, debauchery, filthiness, immorality, impurity, lewdness, rottenness, unprincipledness), züllöttség (corruption, depravity, lewdness), trágárság (foulness, indecency, nastiness, obscenity, ordure, scurrility, smut, smuttiness), trágár beszéd (scurrility), szenny (dirt, grime, muck, scuz, scuzz, squalor), ocsmányság (foulness, obscenity), ocsmány beszéd, korrupció (corruption, graft, job, malversation), erkölcstelen látvány, csúf beszéd. (various references)

Indonesian

cemaran (calumny, dirt, slander). (various references)

Italian

sudiciume (dinginess, dirt, filthiness, frowziness, grime, muck, nastiness, raunchiness, scruffiness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

垢 (dirt), 汚れ (dirt, disgrace, impurity, uncleanness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あか (bloody, dirt, red, scarlet, subfamily, suborder), よ�"れ (dirt). (various references)

Manx

trustyr (deads, debris, dirt, dross, garbage, junk, muck, muckiness, nastiness, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash, trash rubbish), feohoilys (foulness), eajeeys (atrocity, ghastliness, monstrosity, odiousness), broid (blow, dirt, grime, pollutant, smut). (various references)

Norwegian

smuss, skitt (dirt, grime). (various references)

Pig Latin

ilthfay.(various references)

Portuguese

sujeira (dirt, foulness, grime, grubbiness, mess, muck, smirch, smut, soil), porcaria (dirt, dirtiness, grubbiness, mess, mire, muck, mud, slovenliness, sludge, squalor, trash), obscenidades, lixo (garbage, litter, offscourings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, trash, waste), linguagem baixa e imoral, imundície (carrion, dirt, dirtiness, feculence, foulness, muck, ordure, sludge, slush, soil, squalor), imoralidade (immorality, vice). (various references)

Romanian

ticãloşie (abjection, baseness, blackness, dirt, foulness, ignominiousness, ignominy, infamy, knavery, knavishness, meanness, misdeed, rascality, swinishness, wickedness, wretchedness), spurcãciune (dirt, dung, excrements), porcãrie (bawdry, carrion, infamy, piggery, piggishness, pigwash, swinishness), noroi (clay, mire, muck, mud, ooze, sediment, slime, slush), murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity). (various references)

Russian 

грязь (dirt, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slob, sludge, sordidness, squalor, squelch). (various references)

Scottish

salachar (impurity, nastiness), raip, ròib, cl� bar, òtrach (dunghill, dung-hill; dung). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prljavština (dirt, dirtiness, grime, impurity, muck, squalor), nečistoća (dirt, dross, impurity, muck, ordure, recrement). (various references)

Spanish

porquería (dirt, muck, piggery, rubbish), inmundicia (dirt, ordure, uncleanliness), cochinada. (various references)

Sranan

fistisani (dirt). (various references)

Swedish

smuts (dirt, dirtiness, foulness, grime, muck, night-soil, ordure, squalor), snusk (squalidity, squalidness, squalor). (various references)

Turkish

pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), müstehcen film, kir (dirt, grime, smear, smirch, soil, stain, tarnish), ağzı bozukluk (profanity, scurrility), açık saçıklık (immodesty, indecency, lewdness, obscenity, suggestiveness). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, subvert, vitiate), непристойність (bawdry, coarseness, immodesty, impurity, indecency, lewdness, obsceneness, obscenity, opprobriousness, ordure, salacity, scurrility, smut), мерзота (abomination, carrion), забруднювати (belute, besmirch, contaminate, defile, gum up, make dirty, moil, pollute, puddle, stain), лихослів'я (balderdash, detraction, evil-speaking, obloquy, ribaldry, slander, whispering), бруд (dirt, feculence, foul, foulness, grime, mullock, squalor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rác rưởi (dross, punk, raffle, sullage), rác bẩn thức ăn không ngon sự tục tĩu, lòi nói thô bỉ, điều ô trọc lời nói tục tĩu. (various references)

Welsh

ysglyfaeth (booty, carrion, prey, spoil), rhwd (dirt, rust, sediment), budreddi (filthiness), bryntni (filthiness), baw (dirt, dung, mire), aflendid (pollution, uncleanness). (various references)

Zulu

izibi (dirt). (various references)

caeni, caeno, cena, cenis, feculentia, fimus, inluvie, inquinamentis, inquinamento, inquinamentum, limo, limum, pedore, peripsima, purgamenta, purgamentum, sordes, spurcamen, squalore, stercore, stercoris, stercus. (various references)

sairi. (various references)

ordure. (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 "filth": filthier, filthiest, filthily, filthiness, filthinesses, filths, filthy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Filth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: failth, Falah, falth, fanth, felth, feth, Fialho, filoh, filt, filtch, filthe, Filty, finth, fith, flih, fliht, flith, fuath, fylthe, lilth, pilth, silth, Xiith, zilth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: flit, hilt, lift.

-2 letters: fil, fit, hit, lit, til.

-3 letters: hi, if, it, li, ti.

+1 letter: filths, filthy, flight, flitch.

+2 letters: fifthly, flights, flighty, heftily, leftish, lithify.

+3 letters: faithful, fanlight, filthier, filthily, fishbolt, fishtail, flatfish, flattish, flichter, flighted, flitched, flitches, foothill, frothily, halftime, helilift, inflight, lightful, mirthful, rightful, shiftily, shoplift, tilefish, whitefly.

+4 letters: blueshift, bullfight, chairlift, eightfold, faithfuls, faithless, fanlights, filthiest, firelight, fishbolts, fishplate, fishtails, flashiest, fleshiest, fletching, flichters, flightier, flightily, flighting, flitching, flyweight, foothills, frightful, halftimes, helilifts, hifalutin, lightface, lightfast, lithified, lithifies, nightfall, nightlife, platyfish, preflight, safelight, shiftable, shiftless, shoplifts, thriftily, topflight.