dirtying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dirty

noun

1. 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, […]”