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dirten

dirten adjective: dirty; filthy.

Adjective (1)

dirten (comparative more dirten, superlative most dirten)

  1. (dialectal) Dirty; filthy

Adjective (2)

dirten (comparative more dirten, superlative most dirten)

  1. (dialectal) Made of dirt
    • a dirten floor

Verb

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

  1. (Uganda, ambitransitive) To 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, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth

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Forms of dirten

Adjective
comparativemore dirten
superlativemost dirten
Verb
third-person singular presentdirtens
present participledirtening
past participledirtened
pastdirtened

Origin of dirten

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.

From dirt + -en (“made of”).

From dirt + -en (verbal suffix).

Questions about dirten

What does dirten mean?
Dirten means dirty; filthy.
What part of speech is dirten?
Dirten can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near dirten in the dictionary

  1. dirtboarding
  2. dirtboards
  3. dirtbrain
  4. dirtbrains
  5. dirted
  6. dirten
  7. dirtened
  8. dirtening
  9. dirtens
  10. dirtfall
  11. dirtfalls

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