1. Anything regarded as making something unclean
   "He scrubbed the dirt off his hands after working on the car";
   - filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grunge
    
2. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
   "Children often get dirt under their fingernails while playing outside";
   - soil
    
3. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
   "The office was rife with dirt about the new employee";
   - scandal, malicious gossip
    
4. [vulgar, informal] Obscene term for faeces
   "there was dog dirt everywhere";

1. (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
   "The dirt road became impassable during the rainy season";
   - ungraded

Derived forms: dirts

See also: unimproved

Type of: BM, comment, dejection, dirtiness, earth, faecal matter [Brit, Cdn], faeces [Brit, Cdn], fecal matter [N. Amer], feces [N. Amer], goss [Brit, informal], gossip, ground, ordure, scuttlebutt [N. Amer, informal], stool, uncleanness

Encyclopedia: Dirt, Silver and Gold