dirtying

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dirtying

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of dirty

noun dirtyings

A soiling or making dirty. Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]
Similar: soilure

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@misc{dirtying_2026,
  title = {dirtying},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dirtying},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}