dirtsome

English

Etymology

From dirt +‎ -some.

Adjective

dirtsome (comparative more dirtsome, superlative most dirtsome)

1. Marked by dirtiness or by being dirty
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     Guilt 'cos I always s'vived an' 'scaped despite my dirtsome'n'stony soul.

   • 2009, Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, The Dragon Book:

     'Are you truly certain you are well, Princess'? quoth he. 'Because you look a bit battered and dirtsome, [...]'

Adverb

dirtsome (comparative more dirtsome, superlative most dirtsome)

1. (nonstandard, regional) very; extremely; awfully
   • 2016, Ruth Fnnegan, Poems from the Black Inked Pearl 2:

     Dear nutmeg grown for me and mine midst tree and mace and tropic's space [e]quatorial shine., with brown and black in spice-isles sown you're dirtsome cheap sold in hea[p]s, then heapen pile, but dear to me.

Anagrams

• Tidmores, distomer, mortised, temorids