dirty

adjective dirtier · dirtiest · dorty

1. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty.
2. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting. Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty.
3. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually. At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.
4. Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules. He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.
5. Corrupt, illegal, or improper. I won't accept your dirty money!
6. Out of tune. You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.
7. Of color, discolored by impurities. The old flag was a dirty white.
8. Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk. Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.
9. slang Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream. None of y'all get into my car if you're dirty.
10. informal Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great". He lives in a dirty great mansion.
11. Sleety; gusty; stormy. dirty weather
12. slang Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives. dirty martini
13. Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way. You can call it quick-and-dirty if you like, but there are billions of dollars out there riding on the supposition that fast food is not necessarily dirty food.
14. Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings. Lardo in Portland, Oregon, serves "dirty fries" topped with fried rosemary, peppers, lardons, and Parmesan.
15. Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area. a dirty explosion
16. Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
17. Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
18. Producing much ash.
19. Containing something out of focus in the foreground, so as to frame the main subject.

adverb more dirty · most dirty · dorty

1. In a dirty manner. to play dirty

verb dirties · dirtying · dirtied · dorty

1. transitive To make (something) dirty.
2. transitive To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
3. transitive To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
4. intransitive To become soiled; to soil or defecate on. When the blackberries begin to decay, and the seeds to appear, the children are told not to eat them any longer, as the Pooka has dirtied on them.

Similar: assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit

noun dirties · dorty

1. Anything that is dirty. I had to get started on the trays. […] I started emptying it from the bottom, putting the dirties in the water. Then I could put the clean ones in the empty spaces to dry while I pulled more dirties from the next shelf up.