dirten

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adjective

Dirty; filthy

“a dirten floor”

Similar
bedirtygunkstainassoilbeclartbedaubimbrue (especially with blood)bedizen
OriginMiddle English driten ← Old English driten ← Proto-West Germanic *dritan →
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Meanings

dirten1

adjectivedirten (comparative more dirten, superlative most dirten)

comparative more dirten · superlative most dirten

  1. dialectalDirty; filthy

dirten2

adjectivedirten (comparative more dirten, superlative most dirten)

comparative more dirten · superlative most dirten

  1. dialectalMade of dirt

    a dirten floor

dirten3

verbdirten (third-person singular simple present dirtens, present participle dirtening, simple past and past participle dirtened)

present singular third person dirtens · participle present dirtening · participle past dirtened · past dirtened

  1. UgandaambitransitiveTo make or become dirty or soiled.

    "May I wash her and change her dress before you take her? She always hated being dirty," I said remembering how Pauline used to cry if she fell down and dirtened her dress or socks.

    1999, Jane Alison Kaberuka, Silent Patience, page 44

    Synonyms: bedirty, gunk, stain, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood)

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo make or become dirty or soiled.

Similar
bedirtygunkstainassoilbeclartbedaubbedirtyimbrue (especially with blood)bedizenbefilebefilthbefoulbegrimeberaybeshitbesmearbesmirchbesullybewrayblacken
Also see
dirtysoil

Origin

dirten · adjective

  1. Proto-Germanic*drītaną“to defecate; befoul”
  2. Proto-Germanic*dritanaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*dritan
  4. Old Englishdriten
  5. Middle Englishdriten
  6. Englishdirten

From Middle English driten, from Old English driten, ġedriten, from Proto-West Germanic *dritan, from Proto-Germanic *dritanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *drītaną (“to defecate; befoul”). By surface analysis, dirt + -en.

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dirten · adjective

From dirt + -en (“made of”).

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dirten · verb

From dirt + -en (verbal suffix).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

tinderrident
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APA

dirten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirten

MLA

“dirten.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirten. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dirten,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirten.

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