FILTH, FILTHINESS, FILTHY
ADJECTIVES
► AVERN filthy, squalid → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BAACHIE nasty tasting; filthy → 1930 Amer. dial.
► BAWDISH obscene, filthy → 1572 obs.
► BAWDY soiled, dirty, filthy → 1377 obs.
► BOGGIN’ ► BOGGING stinking, filthy, disgusting → 2000 UK sl.
► CACKY covered with excrement; hence, dirty, filthy, malodorous → 19C sl.
► CRUDDY dirty, mucky, filthy; unpleasant, disgusting → 1877 sl.
► CRUMBY filthy, dirty, untidy → 1859 sl.
► CRUTTING dirty, mucky, filthy; unpleasant, disgusting → 1925
► DAGGY of clothes, appearance, etc.: dirty; filthy; slovenly; messy; unkempt; unpleasant → 1967 Aust. sl.
► DUNGHILL worthless; trashy; filthy; of the nature of rubbish or refuse → 1555
► DUNGY covered in or spattered with dung; soiled or polluted with dung or filth; dirty, filthy; mucky, muddy → c1450
► FECULENT covered with faeces; filthy → 1590 obs.
► FEEST untidy, unkempt; filthy → 1901 Amer. dial.
► FULSOME physically disgusting; filthy, dirty, foul, loathsome → c1510
► GRABBY dirty, grimy, filthy, grubby → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GREASY filthy, obscene, low; especially said of language → 1588
► GRUFTY dirty, filthy → 1922 Eng. dial.
► GRUNDY dirty, shabby, grimy, filthy, disgusting; disreputable, unpleasant → 1966 Amer. sl.
► GRUNGED-OUT filthy, dirty, grimy → 1986 Amer. sl.
► GRUNGY dirty, filthy → 1965 sl.
► GUNGED UP filthy; sticky; clogged with filth, esp. with an unidentifiable or disgusting viscid substance → 1962 UK sl.
► GUNGEY ► GUNGY filthy; sticky; clogged with filth, esp. with an unidentifiable or disgusting viscid substance; messy, ugly, smelly, old, or ragged → 1962 UK sl.
► HARLOTRY base, scurvy, filthy, worthless, trashy → 1579 obs.
► IMMUND unclean, impure; filthy, foul → 1621
► LAIRY earthly, filthy → a1340 obs.
► LEPROUS foul, filthy → 1598
► MANKEY ► MANKY dirty, filthy → 1971 Brit. sl.
► MUCKING repellent, filthy → L19 sl.
► NASTY dirty; filthy → 1995 W. Indies & Black British sl.
► NESTIE ‘nasty’, foul, filthy, offensive → c1700 Sc.
► ORDUROUS of the nature of ordure or dung, filthy → c1605 obs.
► PIGGING filthy → 20C Irish sl.
► PUTREDINOUS filthy, abominable → 1711 obs.
► RUSTY-FUSTY-DUSTY excessively dirty; begrimed with dust and filth → 1630
► SCANDALOUS filthy, befouled → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCANKY ► SKANKY disgustingly filthy → 2009 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SCROUNGY dirty, filthy → 1949 sl., orig. & chiefly US
► SCUZZY dirty, filthy → 1969 sl., orig. & chiefly Amer.
► SHITTY covered with excrement; generally filthy → 1768 sl.
► SORY filthy, dirty → 1440 obs.
► SPURCITIOUS filthy, foul, obscene → 1628 obs.
► TURPID base, filthy, worthless → 1623
► TURPIE filthy → 1633 obs.
► UNRID disorderly, untidy; filthy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VILD unpleasant, disagreeable, portending evil or mischief, disgusting, filthy → 1836 Sc.
► YAUGH dirty, nasty, filthy → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► ADDLE stinking urine, or other liquid filth; mire → a1000
► BATTER soft, moist dirt; filth → 1790 Eng. dial.
► BAWDINESS dirtiness; dirt, filth → 1552 obs.
► BAWDRY material filth; dirt, defilement → 1648 obs.
► CACK muck; filth → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CLART mud or filth → E19 Eng. dial.
► CRAP anything nasty; filth; ordure → 1991 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CRUD dirt; dirty material; filth → 1948 sl., orig. US
► DICKIE ► DICKY filth, ordure → 1825 Sc.
► DIRT filth, obscenity, scurrilous information or gossip → 1926 sl.
► FECULENCE feculent matter; dregs, lees, dross, scum; also, filth → a1648
► FECULENCY foulness, filth → 1651 obs.
► FEDITY foulness, filthiness, nastiness, vileness, loathsomeness, whether moral or physical → 1542 obs.
► FULYIE the sweepings of the street; rubbish; filth → 1538
► FUSSOCK dirt, filthiness, laziness → 19C Eng. dial.
► GACH dirt or filth → 1851 Eng. dial.
► GAG a filthy mass of any substance, liquid, or semi-liquid; mire, mud → 1866 Sc.
► GALL filth, impurity → a1300 obs.
► GAR any slimy, filthy, or muddy substance; that produced by algae in a pond or river; green seaweed; any sticky, miry mess → 1808 Sc.
► GARBIDGE garbage, refuse; filth → 1583
► GARBISH garbage, refuse; filth → 1583
► GROT dirt, dirty material, filth → 1971 Brit. sl.
► GRUNGE dirt; filth; rubbish → 1968 sl.
► GRUNGEHOLE a filthy or disreputable place → 1986 Amer. sl.
► GUNGE an unidentifiable or disgusting dirty, messy, or sticky substance; general filth → 1965 colloq.
► GUTTERS mud, filth → 1785 Sc.
► HACK filth, dirt → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HARLOTRY filth, trash → 1467 obs.
► IMMUNDICITY uncleanness, impurity; filthiness → 1530 obs.
► IMMUNDITY uncleanness, filthiness, impurity → 1870
► JAKES excrement; filth → 1847 Eng. dial.
► JUNKHEAP a disgusting, filthy place → 1920s sl.
► LEPROSY foulness, filth → 1598
► LEPRY foulness, filth → 1526 obs.
► MUCKHOLE a filthy, unappetizing place or room → 1900s sl.
► MUD HOLE a despised place; a place of filth and squalor → 1784
► MUNG dirt, muck; anything filthy or distasteful → 1883 Amer. dial.
► MYSOPHILIA an abnormal attraction to filth → 1991 (Bk.)
► NAST dirt, filth, foulness → 1789 Eng. dial.
► NASTMENT filth, nastiness → 1887 Eng. dial.
► NASTRY filth → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OFFSCOURINGS filth or defilement cleaned off and cast aside; refuse, rubbish → 1674
► ORDURE filth, dirt → a1300 arch.
► PARGIS a dirty mess, a muddle, a filthy condition → 1929 Sc.
► PRUT anything nasty; filth; ordure → 1991 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► RAG-AND-BONE SHOP a very dirty, filthy, untidy room → c1880 colloq.
► RHYPOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of filth → 1991 (Bk.)
► SCHMUTZ ► SHMUTZ dirt, dirty material, grime, grease, filth, dust → 1968 sl.
► SCLATCH ► SKLATCH an unseemly mass of anything semi-liquid; a large clot of mud or filth; a large spot or mark on the skin → 1895 Sc.
► SCRUNGE anything nasty; filth; ordure → 1991 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SCUMBER the dung of a dog or fox; hence, filth, dirt → 1647 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SCUNGE dirt, dirty material, filth → 1975 sl.
► SCUZZ anything nasty; filth; ordure → 1991 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SCUZZO anything nasty; filth; ordure → 1991 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SHIT-CHUTE a disgusting, filthy place → 2000s sl.
► SINK a pool or pit formed in the ground for the receipt of waste water, sewage, etc; a cesspool; a receptacle for filth or ordure → c1440
► SKANK filth, dirtiness, malevolence → 1980s US sl.
► SLUTNESS filthiness → 1500 obs.
► SMOD stain, filth → c1400 obs.
► SNOTTERY nasal mucus or filth → obs.
► SORDES dirt, filth; foul or feculent matter → 1640
► SORDS dirt, filth, filthiness → 1653 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SUDS dregs, leavings; hence, filth, muck → 1548 obs.
► SULLAGE ► SULLIDGE 1. filth, refuse; esp. as is carried off by drains from a house, farmyard, or the like; sewage → 1553
2. filth, filthiness, defilement, pollution → 1641 obs.
► TATA excrement; filth → 1777 Eng. dial. obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BEAST a person rude, coarse, filthy, or acting in a manner unworthy of a rational creature → c1400
► BUZZARD a filthy child → 1900s US sl.
► CHATTY a filthy man → 19C sl.
► CLARTY-PAPS a filthy, slatternly woman or wife → 19C Eng. dial.
► CRUMB a filthy person; an objectionable, worthless, or insignificant person → 1918 sl., orig. US
► DIRTBALL a filthy, contemptible, or obnoxious person → 1974 US sl.
► DUNGHILL a filthy or disgusting person; a very dirty or scruffy person → 1542
► GARBAGE CAN a filthy or disgusting person, esp. an old prostitute → 1927 US sl.
► GAUBSHITE an awkward, ill-kept, dirty person; a filthy, slovenly man; a boor, a fool, a blockhead → 1887 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GLUTTON a general term of reproach or contempt; a vile wretch; a knave, rascal, filthy fellow → c1300 obs.
► JACK-NASTY-FACE a filthy or unpleasant-looking person → 1823 sl.
► MEAZLE a leper; a filthy creature → 1746 Eng. dial. obs.
► MOVING DUNGHILL a dirty, filthy man or woman → 1796 sl. (Bk.)
► MUCK-HEAP a filthy, slovenly man or woman → 19C Brit. sl.
► MUCK-SCUTCHEON a filthy person → 19C Brit. sl.
► MUCK-SUCKLE a filthy, dirty, slatternly, or very untidy woman → c1860 Brit. colloq.
► RUBBACROCK a dirty, filthy slattern, that is as black as if she were continually rubbing herself against a boiler or kettle → 1746 Eng. dial.
► SLABBER a filthy, slobbering person → L18
► SLABBERDEGULLION a filthy, slobbering fellow → E17
► SLOTTERBUG a dirty or filthy person → c1440 obs.
PHRASES
► ENOUGH TO GAG A MAGGOT said of someone or something very dirty or filthy → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► BAWDY to make dirty or filthy; to befoul, to defile → 1398 obs.
► BEASTLE to soil, to befoul; to make filthy → 1867 Eng. dial.
► GUNGE ► GUNGE UP to make filthy → 1976 UK sl.
► POLLUTE to make physically impure, foul, or filthy; to dirty, to stain, to taint → 1548
► SORDIDATE vb. to make foul, sluttish, or filthy → 1623 obs.
► TURPIFY to make foul or filthy; to befoul, to besmirch → a1586