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undirty

undirty adjective: not dirty.

Adjective

undirty (comparative undirtier, superlative undirtiest)

  1. Not dirty.
    • But I’ll be telling you, that on Monday laſt was publiſh’d a Parcel of NONSENSE, call’d, The MERRY LAD: Devil burn it my Dear, have nothing to ſay to it, for there are a Parcel of wicked Songs; undirty Catches; Odes; Country Dances; and ſeveral Odd Sayings, of a Queer Antiquated Quaker, call’d...1753 March 9–16, The Derby Mercury, volume XXI, number 51, page 4
    • It is particularly unfair for baking powder manufacturers to seek to pervert the truth, or prejudice the ignorant or unwary by statements that it is either harmful or undirty.1886 December 9, “A Baking Powder Matter. More of the Albany Newspaper Investigation. The “Journal” Reaffirms and Emphasizes the Facts—Plain Talk from Prof. Tucker—His Opinion on Ammonia and Bread...

Verb

undirty (third-person singular simple present undirties, present participle undirtying, simple past and past participle undirtied)

  1. To make not dirty.
    • Cleaning Clothes is our business and the dirtier they get, the more we enjoy undirty-ing them; the bigger the job, the more spectacular the result.1950 October 9, Bristol Virginia-Tennessean, volume 1, number 280, Bristol, Va., page 6
    • shame on you, mitey··just look at your clothes! / it’s natural for babies to get their clothes dirty, teeny / and it’s natural to un-dirty ’em with lestoil isn’t it, mom?1959 June 6, The Courier-Journal, volume 209, number 157, Louisville, Ky., section 2, page 2

Examples of undirty in a sentence

  • Strykers Granulated SOAP WILL NOT make you sing “a glorious little washtub song.” But it will make things undirty quick.1947 January 16, “Attention: married women with husbands: Strykers Granulated Soap does not do everything!”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume...
  • Getting clothing dirty is a daily habit and whichever day one selects for getting it undirty will provide the same amount of toil.1950 November 9, “A Lady’s Complaint”, in The Post-Star, volume XLVI, number 300, Glens Falls, N.Y., page 4:
  • As a result this commercial uses especially prepared dirt, treated with a dye to make it look like undirty dirt.1953 July 5, Jerry Franken, “Behind Your TV Screen: ‘Today’ Is Right Up to the Minute”, in Sunday News, volume 33, number 10, New York...
  • If a person is clean, he may not only be undirty; he may be well-proportioned or trim.1957 September 15, Bryant W. Pocock, “Dig out crazy language”, in The State Journal, Lansing—East Lansing, Mich., page 29:

Forms of undirty

Adjective
comparativeundirtier
superlativeundirtiest
alternative formun-dirty
Verb
third-person singular presentundirties
present participleundirtying
past participleundirtied
pastundirtied

Origin of undirty

From un- + dirty.

Questions about undirty

What does undirty mean?
Undirty means not dirty.
How do you use undirty in a sentence?
Strykers Granulated SOAP WILL NOT make you sing “a glorious little washtub song.” But it will make things undirty quick.
What part of speech is undirty?
Undirty can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near undirty in the dictionary

  1. undirectly
  2. undirectness
  3. undirects
  4. undirn
  5. undirtied
  6. undirty
  7. undisable
  8. undisableable
  9. undisabled
  10. undisabused
  11. undisadvantaged

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