DIP – adjectives
– DEMBLE to dip or plunge in liquid; to splash …B1900 Sc.
– TAINT †* to dip, to bathe …1594
DIPHTHERIA – adjectives
– DIP diphtheria …1961 UK medical usage
– DIPHTHEROBIA * diphtheria …1911 Amer. dial.
– DIPTREE diphtheria …1970 Amer. dial.
diphtheria – person
– DIP diphtheria; a person suffering from diphtheria …1961 UK medical usage
DIPLOMA – nouns
– SHEEPSKIN a parchment diploma …Bk1905 Amer. colloq.
DIPLOMAT – person
– COOKIE-PUSHER (derogatory) a diplomat devoting more attention to protocol or social engagements than to work …1943 US sl.
– HIPPO – a smooth diplomat who brown-noses his way to an easy job or position …Bk1972 prison sl.
DIPPED – adjectives
– YDEPT † dipped …1340
DIRE – adjectives
– BALE † actively evil, deadly, dire, pernicious, destructive, fatal, cruel, tormenting …a1000
DIRECT – adjectives
– BAIN direct; near, short …1864 N. Eng. dial.
– DUNSTABLE † straightforward, honest, or direct in one’s speech or dealings …1565
– EVEN-DOWN direct, plain, without reserve or qualification …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– IN-YOUR-CHOPS direct, provocative …2004 UK sl.
– NEEN straight, direct …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFF THE STICK END direct, straight away …1875 Eng. dial.
– ORDINANT † able to order or direct …c1400
direct – person
– ADDRESSERESS †* a female who directs or sets right …1495
– GUYOUR † a guider; one who directs the conduct or actions of a person, or the affairs of a state, household, etc. …a1300
– ORDINATOR † one who orders, regulates, directs, or governs …1615
– SQUARE SHOOTER a truthful, direct, honourable person …1914 US sl.
direct – verbs
– ADDRESS † to make straight the course or aim of anything; to direct; to aim (a missile) …c1374
– AIRT to guide, to direct; to show the direction or point out the way to any place …1782 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– ART to point out the way to any place; to direct; to turn in a certain direction …1789 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– IWISSE † to direct, to instruct …c1000
– KEN † to direct, to guide, to show the way to …c1200
– MANUDUCE † to lead, to guide, to direct …1657
– ORDAIN † to set in proper order or position; to arrange; to keep in due order; to regulate, to govern, to direct, to manage, to conduct …c1300 exc.
– ORDINATE † to order, to regulate, to control, to govern, to direct …1595 rare or obs.
– PLAIN DUNSTABLE † straightforward, honest, or direct in one’s speech or dealings …1565
– RECT to direct …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAY to advise, to direct; to check, to control, to command; to pacify, to silence …1746 Eng. dial.
– TEACH to guide, to direct …1892 Eng. dial.
– WAFT † to guide or direct the course of a vessel, swimmer, etc. …1591
DIRECTED – adjectives
– ORDERABLE * capable of being ordered or directed; amenable to direction or control …1641
DIRECTING – adjectives
– HAWING guiding, directing …1805 Sc.
– MANUDUCENT †* guiding, directing …1677
DIRECTION – adjectives
– MULTIVIOUS having many ways or roads; going or leading in many directions; manifold …1656
– QUAQUAVERSAL turned or pointing in every direction …1728
– VARIOUS † turning different ways; going in different directions …1621
direction – adverbs
– ALLWAYS in all directions …1838
– HELL-BENT AND CROOKED into confusion, in all directions …1914 Amer. dial.
– HELL-BENT FOR ELECTION in all directions, helter-skelter …1968 Amer. dial.
– HELL-BENT FOR SUNDAY in all directions, helter-skelter …1960 Amer. dial.
– HELL-FOR-ELECTION in all directions, helter-skelter …1968 Amer. dial.
– HELL-WEST AND CROOKED into confusion, in all directions …1907 Amer. dial.
– HELL-WESTERN CROOKED into confusion, in all directions …1898 Amer. dial.
– HELL-WESTERN CROOKEDY into confusion, in all directions …1962 Amer. dial.
– REETWAYS in the right direction …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– REETWISE in the right direction …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAME-WAYS in the same direction …1887
– YONDER WAY over there, in that direction …1851 Amer. dial.
– YONDERWAYS over there, in that direction …1851 Amer. dial.
– YONNAWAY that way, in that direction …1884 Amer. dial.
– YONNERWAYS over there, in that direction …1851 Amer. dial.
– YONWAY that way, in that direction …1884 Amer. dial.
– YONWAYS that way, in that direction …1884 Amer. dial.
direction – prepositions
– TILWARD †* in the direction of, toward …a1300
direction – nouns
– ADDRESSION †* the direction of one’s course …1596
– ART a direction, way; locality, district …1805 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ARTAN direction; placing towards a certain quarter of the heavens …Bk1898 Sc.
– GAN course, direction, way …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– LEAD †* leading, direction, guidance …a1300
– LEARNING † information or direction …c1386
– MAGISTRATION †* command, direction …1490
– MANAGE † the action or manner of managing; management; conduct of affairs; administration, direction, control …1581
– MANUDUCTION the act of leading, guiding, or introducing; guidance, introduction, direction …1502
– ORDINANCE the act of ordering or regulating; regulation, direction, management; authoritative appointment or dispensation; control …c1330 arch.
– SITUATION † direction, course …1509
– SUING † a course, direction …c1410
direction – verbs
– DO A B1 to go somewhere else; to change direction …1988 Sc.
– DO A BEE WAN to go somewhere else; to change direction …1988 Sc.
– JAG to make a change in direction …1970 Amer. dial.
– TURN ONE’S TOE to set off in another direction …1902 Sc.
direction – phrases
– THAT-A-ROAD that way, that direction …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DIRECTLY – adverbs
– ABOUT EAST directly, completely, properly, regularly …1856 Amer. dial.
– BELIVE † at once, immediately, directly …c1220
– BILIVE † at once, immediately, directly …c1220
– BLIVE † at once, immediately, directly …c1220
– BY BIRD by the most direct route, as the crow flies …1967 Amer. dial.
– BY THE BIRD by the most direct route, as the crow flies …1982 Amer. dial.
– DRECKLY directly …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– DRECKLY MINUTE directly; instantly, immediately, at once …1892 Eng. dial.
– GATELINGS † directly …1768 Sc.
– GATEWARDS † by the direct road, directly …1630-56
– ON THE BUTTON directly; exactly …1903 Amer. colloq.
– RECKLEYS directly, instantly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RECKLINS directly …1866 Eng. dial.
– RIGHT AWAY directly …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– RIGHT OFF directly …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– SLAP directly; completely …M19 sl.
– SUDDENLY † without delay, forthwith, promptly, immediately, directly, at once …c1330
– THE-RECKLIES corruption of directly …1878 Eng. dial.
– THERECKLY corruption of directly …1878 Eng. dial.
– YERNE † quickly, without delay, immediately, directly, soon …c1320
DIRECTOR – person
– EARL † a director, a superintendent …1483
– HELM a guide, director …Bk1895
– KALENDER a guide, or director …Bk1852
– MANUDUCENT †* a guide, a director …1615
– MANUDUCTOR † a guide, a director …1657
– MASTER † one having direction or control over the action of others; a director, a leader, a chief, a commander; a ruler, a governor …c1000
– MODERATOR † a ruler, a governor, a director …a1398
– ORDAINER † one who puts or keeps in order; a manager, a director, a ruler …c1290
– SAYER †* a director …1483
– UNDERMASTER * a subordinate director or supervisor …1688
DIRENESS – adjectives
– DIRITY †* direness, dreadfulness; cruelty, fierceness …a1600
DIRT – adjectives (also see DIRTY)
– CAGGED caked, ingrained, as with dirt …1895 Eng. dial.
dirt – nouns
– BAGGAGE † rubbish, refuse, dirt …1549
– BATTER soft, moist dirt; filth …1790 Eng. dial.
– BAWD sticky dirt, as black cart-grease …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BAWDINESS † dirtiness; dirt, filth …1552
– BAWDRY † material filth; dirt, defilement …1648
– BINKER a heap of stones or dirt …Bk1898 Sc.
– BLISH-BLASH sloppy dirt …19C Eng. dial.
– BLUITER. mud; any dirty stuff …Bk1911 Sc.
– CABBER a ring of dirt around the neck …20C Irish sl.
– CACK rubbish, dirt, filth …1990s sl.
– CRUD a substance considered unpleasant or disgusting, esp. because of its dirtiness; dirt, muck, or excrement …1943
– CRUNT any form of dirt; esp. the (dried) residue of body fluids, as blood, semen, etc. …1950s African-American sl.
– DRECK dirt; garbage; faeces …Bk2006 US sl.
– DUMMOCK a small heap of soil or dirt …19C Eng. dial.
– FUSSOCK dirt, filthiness, laziness …19C Eng. dial.
– GACH dirt or filth …1851 Eng. dial.
– GOM state of uncleanness from dirt, oil, etc. …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GOONK dirt; slime; oily grime; muck …1932 Amer. sl.
– GRONK dirt which collects between the toes; also, any dirt …M20 US sl.
– GROT dirt, dirty material, filth …1971 Brit. sl.
– GUNK an unidentified and unpleasant substance; any nasty, messy stuff, dirt, slime; any sticky, viscous liquid, esp. hair tonic, cosmetics, lubricants, etc. …1932 US sl.
– GURRY dirt; clutter …1949 Amer. dial.
– HACK filth, dirt …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– KAARM a mass of dirt …Bk1902 Sc.
– KEECH dirt …Bk1901 Sc.
– LUTULENCE * muddiness; mud, dirt …1727
– MUCK anything nasty, as dirt, mud, sweat, feces, etc. …13C
– MUNG dirt, muck; anything filthy or distasteful …L1970s teenagers’ & students’ usage
– MYSOPHOBIA morbid dread of dirt or defilement; an abnormal fear of uncleanliness or contamination, as of soiling one’s hands by touching anything …1879
– NAST dirt, filth, foulness …1789 Eng. dial.
– ORDURE filth, dirt …a1300 arch.
– PRUT dirt, as the sweepings from a floor, deck, or the like …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– SCHMOOTZ dirt, dust, grease, or grime …Brit. sl.
– SCHMUTZ dirt, dirty material, grime, grease, filth, dust …1968 sl.
– SCRIOG a hard crust of dirt …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCUMBER the dung of a dog or fox; hence, filth, dirt …1647 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SCUNGE dirt, dirty material, filth …1975 sl.
– SHMUTZ dirt, filth …1968 sl., chiefly US
– SKIT * dirt, trash …c1330
– VAEDIK a splash or streak of dirt on the face; dirty marks left by a cursory wash …1908 Sc.
– VARG a mess, an untidy mix-up, dirt, rubbish …1891 Sc.
dirt – verbs
– BARK of dirt: to clot, to harden, to encrust, to adhere …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BARKEN of blood or dirt: to clot, to become hardened, or encrusted …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BARKLE of dirt: to cake, to encrust, to adhere …1874 Eng. dial.
– BELUTE to cover with mud or dirt …1760
– BEMOIL † to encumber with dirt and mire; to bemire …1596 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– BESPATTLE to bespatter, to cover with mud or dirt …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BESPOTTLE to bespatter, to cover with mud or dirt …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAB to clog with dirt; to soil by handling …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ETTER of dirt: to eat into, to become engrained into the skin …1874 Eng. dial.
dirt- phrases
– GIVE IT AN IRISH WASH turn the table-cloth or a garment, etc. around so the dust or dirt doesn’t show …1966 Amer. dial.
DIRTIED – adjectives
– DEET dirtied, soiled …1740 Eng. dial.
– DEETED dirtied, soiled …1864 Eng. dial.
– DIRTEN befouled, dirtied …1721 Sc.
– DIRTEN-IN befouled, dirtied …1721 Sc.
– LAIRED dirtied, made miry, choked up with mud …1849 Eng. dial.
DIRTILY – adverbs
– DIRTENLY in a dirty manner …1721 Sc.
– MAWKINLY dirtily …1740 Eng. dial.
DIRTINESS – nouns
– BAWDINESS † dirtiness; dirt, filth …1552
– RAUNCH vulgarity, grubbiness, shabbiness, dirtiness …1967 sl., orig. US
– SKANK filth, dirtiness, malevolence …1980s US sl.
DIRTY – adjectives
– ALL MESSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ALL MUSSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ALL OVER DIRT dirty; soiled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BAISTLY dirty; like a beast …1873 Eng. dial.
– BAWDY † soiled, dirty, filthy …1377
– BAWTRY dirty, dauby …1850 Eng. dial.
– BEASTLY dirty, soiled …1854 Eng. dial.
– BECLAMED smeared over with dirt or grease …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BEDEET dirtied, covered with dirt …1845 Eng. dial.
– BEDRITTEN befouled or soiled with ordure; dirty …Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BEMUCKED † soiled, made dirty …1864 Eng. dial.
– BLACKLIE ill-coloured; dirty; badly washed …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLUTTER dirty, unclean …1952 Amer. dial.
– BUMMY dirty and ragged; dishevelled …1990s African-American sl.
– CABAGGED covered with mud or dust, dirty …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CABAGGLED covered with mud or dust, dirty …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CABBLED dirty, soiled by handling …19C Eng. dial.
– CABBY sticky, adhesive, dirty, muddy; used also of weather …1889 Eng. dial.
– CACKY covered with excrement; hence, dirty, filthy, malodorous …19C sl.
– CHEESY dirty; soiled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– COALMAN’S SACK very dirty …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘black’
– CRUDDY dirty, mucky, filthy; unpleasant,disgusting …1877 sl.
– CRUMBY dirty; filthy; soiled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CRUMMY dirty; soiled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CRUSTY dirty, mean, contemptible …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– CUCKY of children and animals: dirty …15C
– DAGGED † clogged with dirt …1484
– DAGGLED wet or dirtied by mud, etc. …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAGGY of clothes, appearance, etc.: dirty; filthy; slovenly; messy; unkempt; unpleasant …1967 Aust. sl.
– DAUBING wet, dirty …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAUBY sticky, clammy, dirty, untidy …Bk1900 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– DICHTY dirty, foul …1887 Sc.
– DICKY dirty …1887 Sc.
– DINGY dirty, soiled …M18 Eng. dial.
– DIRTY AS THUMP O’ DOLLY very dirty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– DOOKIE dirty …1920s sl.
– DOOKY dirty …1920s sl.
– DUNGY covered in or spattered with dung; soiled or polluted with dung or filth; dirty, filthy; mucky, muddy …c1450
– FUNKY bad, distasteful, dirty, smelly …1946 US sl.
– GAGGLED daggled, wet or dirtied by mud, etc. …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GAITED marked with dirt …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GOMMED UP dirty …1982 US sl.
– GROTTY ugly, dirty, or offensive; displeasing; disgusting; grotesque, shocking …1964 Amer. sl.
– GROUTY muddy, dirty, soiled, begrimed …1744-50 Eng. dial.
– GRUBBED UP dirtied; dirty …1961 Amer. dial.
– GRUNDY dirty, shabby, grimy, filthy, disgusting; disreputable, unpleasant …1966 Amer. sl.
– GRUNGED-OUT filthy, dirty, messy; unappetizing, unappealing …1986 US sl.
– GRUNG(E)Y dirty, filthy, messy, unappetizing, unappealing …1965 sl.
– GUMMY † sticky, soiled, dirty …1640
– GURRIED UP dirty; messy …1975 Amer. dial.
– HASKY coarse, dirty, slovenly …1808 Sc.
– HUNDRED TO THIRTY dirty …1974 UK rhyming sl.
– IN A RARE PASS in a mess; dirty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– KAKKER in nursery language: dirty …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– KEECHIE dirty …Bk1901 Sc.
– KUCKY of children and animals: dirty …15C
– LAGGERY miry, dirty …Bk1902 Sc.
– MAGGOTISH dirty, disgusting …20C Irish sl.
– MAGGOTTY dirty, disgusting …20C Irish sl.
– MAGGOTY dirty, disgusting …20C Irish sl.
– MANGY contemptible; dirty …1896
– MANKEY dirty, filthy …1971 Eng. dial. & colloq.
– MANKY dirty, filthy …1971 Brit. sl.
– MAWKINLY slovenly, dirty …1857 Eng. dial.
– MAWKY dirty; white and sickly-looking …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MESSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MIDDENED UP covered or smothered with dirt or rubbish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MONGIE dirty; evil-smelling; nasty …1970s Eng. sl.
– MOTLEY of someone’s face: dirty, smeared …1899 Amer. dial.
– MUCKED UP dirty; soiled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MUCKY dirty; soiled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MUSSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NASTIED UP dirty …1966 Amer. dial.
– NASTY-ASS of a place: dirty, disgusting …1960s US sl.
– OCKY dirty, nasty: generally used of or by children …B1900 Ireland
– OFFAL inferior, superfluous; dirty, untidy …1750 Eng. dial.
– OHRISH wet, dirty, muddy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OOZLIE slovenly, untidy, unkempt, dirty …1824 Sc.
– POTTY very dirty, esp. of children and their clothes …1954 Amer. dial.
– PAIXY untidy; dirty …1892 Eng. dial.
– PASHY wet, dirty, rainy …1867 Eng. dial.
– PUGGY damp and sticky from perspiration; clammy, sweaty, dirty, grimy …1790 Eng. dial.
– RANCHY dirty, disgusting, indecent …E19 US sl.
– RAUNCHY 1. dirty, sloppy, and bad-smelling …M20 US sl.
2. dilapidated, old, worn out, used up; cheap, inferior; ugly, dirty; gaudy; corny …c1950 US teen usage
– REECHY smoky, begrimed with smoke; also, dirty, unwashed …1854 Eng. dial.
– REEVED of linen (clothes or sheets originally made of linen): streaked with dirt …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RUSTY-FUSTY-DUSTY excessively dirty; begrimed with dust and filth …1630
– SAUCY dirty, untidy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCABBY dirty, shabby; worthless; mean, stingy; contemptible …1851 Eng. dial.
– SCANKY dirty, second-rate, unattractive, cheap-looking, ugly, promiscuous …1970s sl., orig. African-American
– SCRIMY dirty, contemptible, mean …1931 Amer. dial.
– SCROUNGY dirty, filthy …1949 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– SCRUMPLED untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SCUNGY unattractive, dirty, untidy, disreputable …1966 Aust.
– SCUZZY dirty, filthy …1969 sl., orig. & chiefly Amer.
– SHANK-ASS dirty, second-rate, unattractive, cheap-looking, ugly, promiscuous …1970s sl., orig. African-American
– SHANKY dirty, second-rate, unattractive, cheap-looking, ugly, promiscuous …1970s sl., orig. African-American
– SKANKY dirty, second-rate, unattractive, cheap-looking, ugly, promiscuous …1975 sl., orig. African-American Cassells
– SHITTY dirty with excrement …1935 sl.
– SKID unattractive, dirty, dishevelled …1990s sl.
– SLACKER THAN DISHWATER untidy, dirty, slovenly …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SLEAZY of a thing: dirty, run-down, decayed …1930s sl.
– SLOPPED UP dirty; soiled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SLUTTISH dirty and untidy in dress and habits …LME
– SLUTTY dirty, slovenly …LME
– SOUDLY † soiled, dirty …c1470 Sc.
– STERQUILINIOUS †* pertaining to a dunghill; hence, dirty, mean, paltry …c1645
– SUDDLY † soiled, dirty …c1470 Sc.
– SUDLY † soiled, dirty …c1470 Sc.
– UDDER-MUCKING untidy, slovenly, dirty, muddling …1896 Eng. dial.
– WALY-DRAIGLING weak and worthless; dirty …1856 Sc.
– YAUGH † dirty, nasty, filthy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
dirty – nouns
– AGGLE a mess; a confused or dirty state …1902 Sc.
– ARMPIT the most dirty, disgusting, or insalubrious part of a place or thing …1957 colloq.
– ATTERIL a shapeless, dirty, or entangled mass; a complete wreck …1889 Eng. dial.
– ATTRIL a shapeless, dirty, or entangled mass; a complete wreck …1889 Eng. dial.
– BLAD a dirty spot, a discoloration …Bk1911 Sc.
– CAB a sticky mass; anything dirty, wet, or clammy; a cold sweat …1790 Eng. dial.
– GAIR a dirty streak or stain on clothes …1953 Sc.
– GRUNGE dirt; filth; rubbish; sticky, dirty unpleasant substances …1960 sl.
– GRUNCH sticky, dirty, unpleasant substances …1960s sl.
– GRUNGEHOLE a dirty room or place …1980s US sl.
– GUNGE an unidentifiable or disgusting dirty, messy, or sticky substance; general filth …1965 colloq.
– GUNK any unpleasant, dirty, sticky material …colloq.
– LAG a dirty mess or smear or coating of mud on the bottom of a dress, etc. …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– MARTYR a spoilt or dirty condition or appearance; a mess; anything that causes such a condition …Bk1905 Sc.
– MESSMENT a mess; a confused, disorderly, or dirty condition; a muddle, a confusion; anything unpalatable …1889 Eng. dial.
– PIGSTY a dirty or untidy place …1820 sl.
– RAG-AND-BONE SHOP a very dirty, filthy, untidy room …c1880 colloq.
– SAVOURY RISSOLE anywhere dirty or unpleasant …20C rhyming sl. for ‘pisshole’
– STATE a dirty, ill-kempt, or poorly preserved condition …1879 UK sl.
– VARG messiness, dirty or disgusting work or conditions …1908 Sc.
dirty – person
– ASH-CAT a dirty or dishevelled person, esp. a child; hence, a general insult irrespective of age…1854 Amer. sl.
– ASH-CAT-SAM a dirty or dishevelled person, esp. a child …1910 Amer. dial.
– ASHIEPATTLE a dirty child that lounges about the hearth …1892 Sc.
– ASHIEPELT a dirty child that lounges about the hearth …1892 Ireland
– ASHYPET a dirty, lazy child that lounges about the hearth …Bk1898 Ireland
– ASSIPOD a dirty, slatternly woman …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ASSYPET an idle or slatternly woman …1870 Sc. & Ireland
– ASSYPOD a dirty, slatternly woman …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BAIGLE a disagreeable, dirty person; an objectionable person; a sight, a fright …1821 Sc.
– BEAGLE a disagreeable, dirty person; an objectionable person; a sight, a fright …1821 Sc.
– BLACK JAUDY a dirty-faced lassie; but generally applied to those girls who go from house to house doing the lowest kitchen work – servants of servants …1843 Sc.
– BLACK-MUMMER one unwashed and unshorn …a1790 UK sl.
– BLUTTER a dirty, clumsy, untidy, or slovenly person …1776 Sc.
– CALLET a prostitute, a trull; a drab, dirty woman …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– CRUD * a person who is habitually dirty or slovenly …1940 US Army sl.
– CRUMB a dirty, slovenly, repulsive person; an unpleasant or despicable person …1918 sl., orig. US
– DABBY-NOINTER a dirty person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAGE a trollop; a dirty, mismanaging woman, a slut, a tatterdemalion …1825 Sc.
– DALLACKS a dirty, slovenly person; a smart, overdressed person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAWGOS † a dirty, slatternly woman …1790 Eng. dial.
– DAWKIN a slatternly woman; one who is dirty and tawdry in her dress; a sloven, a slut …1674 Eng. dial.
– DAWPS a slattern; a dirty, untidy woman …BK1900 Eng. dial.
– DISH-CLOUT a dirty slattern …L18 sl.
– DROSSEL † a dirty girl or woman; an idle wench; a sloven, a slattern, a slut …1581
– DUNGHILL a person likened to a dunghill in being filthy or disgusting in some way, esp. in being morally corrupt or in being very dirty or scruffy …1542
– FEAGUE a dirty, sluttish, idle person …1664 Eng. dial.
– FEAK a dirty, sluttish, idle person …1664 Eng. dial.
– FUSTILUGS † a gross, fat, unwieldy person, especially a woman; a slovenly woman that smells rank; a person with a sour, forbidding aspect; a dirty child; a term of abuse…1607 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GAUBSHITE an awkward, ill-kept, dirty person; a filthy, slovenly man; a boor, a fool, a blockhead …Bk1887 Eng. dial.
– GAWPSHEET an awkward, ill-kept, dirty person; a fool, a blockhead …Bk1887 Eng. dial.
– GIN-BOTTLE a dirty, abandoned, debased woman; the victim of alcoholic abuse, within an ace of inevitable death …1909 sl.
– GRUB a dirty and slovenly person, generally elderly …c1890 colloq.
– GRUNGE a general term of abuse; a repugnant, odious, dirty, or boring person …1960s sl., orig US
– HACHEL a sloven; a dirty, untidy person …Bk1825 Sc.
– HACKSLAVER a dirty, slovenly fellow; an idle, dissolute, good-for-nothing man; a disgusting and silly fellow …1790 Eng. dial.
– HAG – a violent, ill-tempered woman; a scold; an ugly, dirty woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARL(E) – a slattern; a dirty, untidy, or coarse person; an uncouth person …1824 Sc.
– HEAP OF MUCK, A – a term of opprobrium applied to a dirty woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– JACK A LENT – a dirty, slovenly person …1886 Eng. dial.
– JACK-NASTY-FACE – a filthy or unpleasant-looking person; a dirty fellow …1823 sl.
– JACK O’ LENT – a dirty, slovenly person …Bk1882 Eng. dial.
– JAVEL – † a low or worthless fellow; a rascal, a vagabond; a wandering, dirty fellow; a tramp …a1300.
– LADRONE – a sloven, a dirty fellow …B1900 Sc.
– MALLY-MOP – a dirty wench …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAULMAS – a fat woman in dirty finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAUNSEL(L) – a fat, dirty, slovenly woman …1876 Eng. dial.
– MAUNSIL(L) – a fat, dirty, slovenly woman …1876 Eng. dial.
– MEFF – a dirty, smelly individual; a person with disgusting habits …c1960s UK playground sl.
– MEFFER – a dirty, smelly individual; a person with disgusting habits …c1960s UK playground sl.
– MIDDEN a contemptuous term for a dirty, slovenly person …1827 Sc.
– MINGER someone dirty and smelly …2003 Brit. sl.
– MOBILE DUNGHEAP a dirty, smelly person …Bk2004 Brit. sl.
– MOCKING a dirty, lazy woman; a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOEKIN a lazy, dirty woman, a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOIL a slattern, a dirty creature …1790 Eng. dial.
– MOLLY-MAWKS a dirty, slatternly woman …Bk1896 Eng. dial.
– MOPSIE, MOPSY * a dirty, slatternly, or untidy woman; a sloven; a dowdy or homely woman …1699 sl. & Eng. dial.
– MORCAN a dirty, lazy, slovenly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MORGIN a dirty, lazy, untidy, slovenly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MORKIN a dirty, lazy, untidy, slovenly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOVING DUNGHILL a dirty, filthy man or woman …Bk1796 sl.
– MRS. MCCLARTY a dirty, slovenly housewife …1845 Sc.
– MUCK-SUCKLE a filthy, dirty, slatternly, or very untidy woman …c1860 Brit. colloq.
– MUCKY PUP a dirty or untidy child; a term of disapproval …1984 Brit. sl.
– PIG any dirty or slovenly person …20C US colloq.
– PUG-NASTY a dirty slut …L17 coll.
– RAFF – a slovenly, dirty fellow …Bk1895 Aust. criminals’ sl.
– QUEAN – a term of reproach for a shrewish or dirty woman …1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUEEN – an immoral woman; a term of reproach for a shrewish or dirty woman …1740 Eng. dial.
– QUEER MORT – a woman suffering from venereal disease; a dirty drab; a jilting wench …M17 UK criminals’ sl.
– RAGAMUFF – †* a ragged, dirty, disreputable man or boy …1591
– RAMSCALLION – an offensively dirty person; a vagrant of low, rude, worthless habits; a mean wretched fellow …1733 now chiefly N. Eng. dial.
– RAMSCULLION – † an offensively dirty person; a worthless wretch; a rascal; a wild, reckless fellow; a vagabond, a vagrant; a ne’er-do-well …1866 Sc.
– RUBBACROCK – a dirty, filthy slattern, that is as black as if she were continually rubbing herself against a boiler or kettle …1746 Eng. dial.
– SALOP – a dirty, grubby person, esp. a woman or child …1996 W. Indies sl.
– SCABBARD – † a ‘scabbed’ person; a dirty, mangy, scabby person …c1440
– SCARNY-HOUGHS – a dirty drab …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCLYOG – † a term of abuse for a dirty, objectionable person …1882 Sc.
– SCODGE – a dirty little person …1923 Sc.
– SCUNGE a dirty, untidy person …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– SINGED CAT a dirty or dishevelled person, esp. a child …1836 Amer. dial.
– SKAMP an unattractive, dirty, and promiscuous woman …2000s African-American sl.
– SKANKY BOX an unpleasant, dirty (physically and ethically) woman …1980s US sl.
– SKID one who likes to go out at night; an ill-dressed, dirty, dishevelled person …1990s sl.
– SLAMMERKIN a dirty, slovenly female; a slattern, a slut …1785 chiefly Eng. dial.
– SLOB a dirty, slovenly, or untidy person; also implies fatness – a fat person …1861 sl.
– SLOTTERBUG † a dirty or filthy person …c1440
– SLUBBERDEGULLION a dirty, mean fellow; a worthless, slovenly fellow; a base, foul, nasty wretch …a1616
– SLUMMOCK a dirty, untidy, or slovenly person …M19 chiefly Eng. dial. & colloq.
– SLUSH a slovenly or dirty person …E19 Eng. dial.
– SNICKET a pert, saucy, forward girl; a term of reproach for a little girl; a naughty child; a dirty, careless, impudent woman …1867 Eng. dial.
– SQUAWP a dirty or peevish child …B1900
– TAGGELT – a ragged, dirty person; a vagabond; an idle good-for-nothing or disreputable person; a rascal, scamp …Bk1878 Eng. dial.
– TAGIT – a ragged, dirty person; a vagabond; an idle good-for-nothing or disreputable person; a rascal, scamp …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAG-RAG – * a pitiful, ragged fellow; a slovenly, lazy or dirty fellow; a mean person; a vagabond …1609
– TAINT – a very dirty slattern or slut…19C Brit.
– TAIRD – a term of great contempt applied to a man; a nasty, objectionable, dirty person …Bk1825 Sc.
– TAISTRIL(L) – a gawky, slovenly, or unmethodical person – often applied to a girl who tears her clothes from carelessness; a light, wanton, dirty, or careless woman; an idle slattern …Bk1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TARGILL a despicable person; usually applied to a dirty, slovenly woman …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– TARGLE a despicable person; a dirty, slovenly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TARLACK a dirty female tatterdemalion …1881 Eng. dial.
– TARLOCH a dirty female tatterdemalion …1881 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TINKER a dirty person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TUG a dirty, uncouth, repellent person …L19 sl., chiefly Aust.
– URCHIN a little, dirty child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– URF, URPH a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WARB a dirty, unkempt person …1933 Aust. sl.
– WARF a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a puny, contemptible person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1818 Sc.
– WEAN an immoral woman; a term of reproach for a shrewish or dirty woman …1740 Eng. dial.
– WURF a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1838 Sc.
– YOUNG GRUB a dirty little child …1888 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– ZALAVACHE a dirty person …Bk1867 Ireland
dirty – verbs
– BAISLE to make dirty …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BAUD † to befoul or dirty …c1529
– BAWD † to befoul or dirty, to soil …c1529 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– BAWDY † to make dirty or filthy; to befoul, to defile …1398
– BECLART to be dirty …c1230 Eng. dial.
– BEDABBLE to wet with dirty liquid, or in such a way as to make untidy or dirty …1590
– BEDEET to dirty or foul …1845 Eng. dial.
– BEDIZEN to dirty, to cover with dirt …1876 Eng. dial.
– BEDRABBLE to make wet and dirty with rain and mud …c1440
– BEDRITE to befoul or soil with ordure; to make dirty …1721 Sc.
– BEFILE † to make foul or dirty; to defile …c1000
– BEMOIL of persons: to be made dirty by work, to be daubed with mud …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BENASTY to soil, to make dirty; to befoul; to degrade …1917 Amer. dial.
– BERAY † to disfigure, to dirty, to defile, to befoul with dirt, filth, ordure …1530 obs. or arch.
– BESMUT to dirty, to begrime …1656
– BESPATTLE † to bespatter with anything dirty …1546
– BEWRAY to defile with ordure, to dirty …1678 Eng. dial.
– CAGGLE to draggle, to dirty …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– CLART to make dirty or to smear with any sticky substance …13C
– CLIMP to touch a polished surface with dirty or greasy fingers, and leave marks upon it …Bk1896 Eng. dial.
– DAG † to clog with dirt; to bemire, to bedraggle …1484 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DERSE to defile, to dirty …B1900 Eng. dial.
– DIGHT to dirty, to soil, used ironically …1740 Eng. dial.
– DINGE to soil or dirty …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DIRT to soil, to dirty; also, to befoul with excrement …c1860 Eng. dial.
– FLOBBER †* to dirty, to soil …1377
– FUSSOCK to be dirty or lazy …19C Eng. dial.
– GAIR † to streak, to become streaked or dirty; of animal’s coat or cloth: to be striped …1810 Sc.
– GOM to dirty …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GORMUCK to smear with something sticky; to daub, to dirty …1954 Amer. dial.
– GRUB-SHITE to befoul; hence, to make very dirty …c1780 sl.
– GUNGE UP to make filthy; to clog with dirty viscous material …1976 Brit. sl.
– HAMPER to infest with vermin; to choke with dirt …1883 Eng. dial.
– IMBRUE † to stain, to dirty; to defile …1430
– JAVEL to bemire, to dirty, to befoul …B1900
– KAGGLE to draggle, to dirty …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LOOK LIKE THE OLD SCRATCH to look dishevelled and dirty …1915 Amer. dial.
– MAMMOCK to mess, to make dirty; to worry …1899 Eng. dial.
– MARTYR to bedaub, to bespatter, to dirty …1864 Sc.
– MAWKS to mess, to dirty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOMMOCK to mess, to make dirty …1899 Eng. dial.
– MULLOCK to make a thing dirty; to litter a place , esp. with mining refuse …1861
– MUMMOCK to disarrange, to tumble, to throw into confusion; to pull about, to mess, to make dirty; to worry …1899 Eng. dial.
– NASTY † to soil or make dirty or nasty …1728 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PAIR to dirty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PUG to dirty by excessive handling …L19 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SLURRY † to dirty, to soil, to smear, to daub …LME obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SLUT to make dirty and untidy in dress and habits …E17
– SMUTTY to soil, to dirty …1933 Amer. dial.
– SULSH – to soil; to dirty …Bk1869 Eng. dial.
– TASH to soil, to tarnish, to stain, to dirty; to bespatter; to spoil slightly …1829 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TEER to smear, to daub; to spread; to dirty …1880 Eng. dial.
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