Dirt

Dirt

Dirt is unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin or possessions when they are said to become dirty. Common types of dirt include:

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Famous quotes containing the word dirt:

    “Had she come all the way for this,
    To part at last without a kiss?
    Yea, had she borne the dirt and rain
    That her own eyes might see him slain
    Beside the haystack in the floods?”
    —William Morris (1834–1896)

    “Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
    Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon
    To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)