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dirtyard

dirtyard is the alternative form of dirt yard.

Meaning of dirt yard

Noun

dirt yard (plural dirt yards)

  1. (US) An unpaved yard that is kept free of grass and other vegetation.
    • Out front was a clean dirt yard with every vestige of grass patiently uprooted and the ground scarred in deep whorls from the strike of Livvie’s broom.1943, Eudora Welty, “Livvie”, in The Wide Net and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., page 156

Forms of dirtyard

pluraldirtyards

Questions about dirtyard

What is dirtyard the alternative form of?
Dirtyard is the alternative form of dirt yard.

Words near dirtyard in the dictionary

  1. dirty wound
  2. dirty wounds
  3. dirty-handed
  4. dirty-handedness
  5. dirty-minded
  6. dirtyard
  7. dirtyards
  8. dirtybadwrong
  9. dirtybud
  10. dirtybuds
  11. dirtying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dirtyard (page history and authors); dirt yard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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