adj
Meaning 1
Dirty; filthy
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dirten
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adj
Meaning 2
Made of dirt
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Examples
- a dirten floor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To make or become dirty or soiled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Uganda, ambitransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bedirty, gunk, stain, assoil, beclart, bedaub, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English driten, from Old English driten, ġedriten, from Proto-Germanic *dritanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *drītaną (“to defecate; befoul”).
From dirt + -en (“made of”).
From dirt + -en (verbal suffix).