filth

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English

Etymology

From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþ (“foulness, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *fūliþō (“foulness, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul, corrupt, dirty, vile”), from Proto-Indo-European *pū- (“rottenness, pus”), equivalent to foul +‎ -th. Cognate with Dutch vuilte (“filth”). More at foul.

Noun

filth (uncountable)

1. dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles
2. smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution
   • Tillotson

     to purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights

3. (UK, pejorative, slang) the police
4. (US, agriculture, dated) weeds growing on pasture land

   Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

Derived terms

• filthy

Translations

dirt

• Ancient Greek: ῥύπος (rhúpos)
• Arabic: قذارة f (qadhaara)
• Armenian: կեղտ (kełt)

  Old Armenian: կեղտ (kełt), գայռ (gayṙ)

• Bulgarian: мръсотия (bg) f (mrǎsotija)
• Catalan: immundícia, porqueria f
• Chinese:

  CJKV Characters: 垢 (gòu)

  Mandarin: 污垢 (zh) (wūgòu), 穢物, 秽物 (zh) (huìwù), 污 (zh) (wū)

• Finnish: lika (fi)
• French: crasse (fr) f, saleté (fr) f, boue (fr) f

• German: Schmutz (de) m, Dreck (de) m
• Italian: sporco (it) m, sporca (it) f, sporchi (it) m pl, sporche f pl
• Japanese: 泥 (ja) (どろ, doro), 汚物 (おぶつ, obutsu)
• Latin: paedor m
• Maori: kerakera, hawahawa
• Norwegian: skitt m
• Old English: fylþ
• Portuguese: sujeira (pt) f, imundície (pt) f
• Russian: грязь (ru) f (grjaz')
• Spanish: mugre (es) f, porquería (es) f
• Swedish: smuts (sv) c
• Telugu: మురికి (te) (muriki)