filth
Valid in Scrabble
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- 11
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Definition of filth
6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
“Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.”
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noun
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(uncountable, usually)Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
“Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.”
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(uncountable, usually)Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
“He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.”
“Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the droſs and filth of ſenſual delights.”
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(derogatory, uncountable, usually)A vile or disgusting person.
“I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now.”
“They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her.”
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(US, dated, uncountable, usually)Weeds growing on pasture land.
“Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.”
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(Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable)The police.
“We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived.”
“Riding through the city on my bike all day/'Cause the filth took away my licence”
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(UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory)Acronym of failed in London, try Hongkong.
“The British expatriate in Hong Kong has long been known as FILTH.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
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