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dirtyings

dirtyings is the plural of dirtying.

Meaning of dirtying

Noun

dirtying (plural dirtyings)

  1. A soiling or making dirty.
    • Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor
    Synonyms:
    soilure

Questions about dirtyings

What is dirtyings the plural of?
Dirtyings is the plural of dirtying.

Words near dirtyings in the dictionary

  1. dirtybud
  2. dirtybuds
  3. dirtying
  4. dirtying down
  5. dirtying up
  6. dirtyings
  7. dirtyish
  8. dirubidium
  9. dirucotide
  10. diruption
  11. Dirusso

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