filthyadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/ˈfɪlθi/, U.S.

/ˈfɪlθi/

Forms: see filth n. and -y suffix¹. See also feelthy adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: filth n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < filth n. + -y suffix¹.

A. adj.

a. Covered with or consisting of filth; disgustingly or offensively dirty; foul, unclean.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]

uncleaneOE

horyc1000

foulOE

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soryc1440

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slubberly?1529

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bluterc1550

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ordurous?1606

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stercorose1727

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cloacinean1814

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cloacinal1887

schmutzig1911

grufty1922

scabrous1939

mawkit1962

feechie1975

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Zech. iii. 3 Jhesus was clothid with filthi [L. sordidis] clothis.

a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 31 (MED) Of slimositee & filþi coloracioun of teeþ.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xcv. sig. ffvi^v/1 [A serpent] louyth fylthi places.

?1543 M. Coverdale Christen Exhortacion f. 25 The fylthye myre in the stretes that we spurne forth with oure fete.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxv. 131 To go home thorough stinking streates, and filthy lanes.

1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III ii. sig. G4 A filthy Carpet fits an ordur'd Thought.

1682 T. Otway Epil. Venice Preserv'd (single sheet) From the filthy Dunghil-faction bred, New-form'd Rebellion durst rear up its head.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ⁋3 The benches around are so filthy, that no one can sit down.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 257 Filthy metal that one could not touch without daubing one's fingers.

1802 Med. Repository 5 204 The filthy dwelling where the illness was contracted.

1869 Lancet 22 May 709/1 The filthy air, and the constant exposure to wet.., are sufficient to destroy the soundest constitution.

1910 A. R. Dugmore Camera Adventures Afr. Wilds ii. 18 We reached the Olgerei River, and pitched our camp near a filthy water hole.

1982 G. M. Fraser Flashman & Redskins 175 The whole place was filthy with refuse.

2001 Victorian Nov. 8/3 Bedraggled waifs with matted hair and filthy clothes.

†b. Of ground, soil, etc.: muddy, miry. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire > abounding in

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miryc1443

muddyc1450

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mire1673

sloughy1704

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guttery1808

slubby1823

grooty1848

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. liii. f. 320 In place of a pure foundacion, thy building is reared vpon a light sande, and vnconstant ground, or else vpon a filthy and foule quamire.

1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria Aunc. Hist. Romanes Warres i. 270 Some [money] was hidden in the ground, some in filthy pittes, and some in graves.

1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry ix. 64 If this marrish and filthy ground doe not lie so low as these low valleyes,..first open the heads of all the Springs you can find.

1766 R. Wynne tr. Tacitus in H. S. Reimarus Principal Truths Nat. Relig. 37 In general it [sc. Germany] is over-run with gloomy woods or filthy marshes.

1822 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Sept. 230/2 Innumerable little springs, sending forth their bounteous streams through small muddy fissures of black and filthy soil.

c. Of weather: very unpleasant; (typically) spec. wet, cold, and windy. colloquial (chiefly British) in later use.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective]

starkOE

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distempered1490

untemperate1525

intemperate1526

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1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 807 We lay in Harborough vntill the three and twentieth of Februarie, by reason of contrary windes and most vile and filthie fowle weather.

1629 T. Browne tr. W. Camden Hist. Elizabeth iv. 380 Defect of health and strength, which the indisposition of the aire.., being a filthy, windy, and rainy day, much improoued.

1703 W. B. Ingenii Fructus (ed. 3) 134 In troth, you need not be so Merry; for if this Wind continues, you are like to have foul and filthy Weather.

1823 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 574/1 I've hardly a day to do weel ; an' this filthy weather gies them aye anither eik.

1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Tales Western Moors 290 You'm only half a notion o' weather till you'm atop of Darteymoor when 'tis filthy.

1955 Times 3 May 5/2 They were hove-to off Thyborön in filthy weather.

2008 Observer (Nexis) 12 Oct. 18 The weather was filthy out at sea in Alicante.

†d. Of air or clouds: murky, thick. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > thick (of clouds)

thicky1587

filthya1616

solid1807

the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid

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mistyc1485

foggyc1487

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. iii. 114 The coole and temperate Wind of Grace O're-blowes the filthy and contagious Clouds.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. i. 11 Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre.

2. figurative. Morally foul or corrupt; obscene, disgusting, immoral, offensive. In recent use also with neutral or positive connotation: sexually uninhibited, wanton.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]

blackOE

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lousyc1386

unwashed?a1390

fulsomec1390

filthy?c1400

rankc1400

leprousa1425

sicka1425

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putrid1628

putredinous1641

foede1657

fulsamic1694

carrion1826

foul1842

shitty1879

scabrous1880

scummy1932

pukey1933

shitting1950

gungy1962

grungy1965

shithouse1966

grot1967

bogging1973

society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > morally foul

fennyc897

foulOE

sutya1225

lousyc1386

rustyc1390

filthy?c1400

feculent1471

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene

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filthy?c1400

knavishc1405

sensual?a1425

ribaldousc1440

dishonestc1450

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slovenly?1518

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ribaldish?1533

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ribaldric1796

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fat1836

ithyphallic1856

hot1892

rorty1898

rude1919

bitchy1928

feelthy1930

raunchy1943

ranchy1959

down and dirty1969

steamy1970

sleazo1972

?c1400 tr. Secreta Secret. (Sloane) (1977) 11 (MED) I biheld and knewe me schapli to þese thynges filthy and reprouable.

c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 309 (MED) Our fylþy flesshe, so full of corupcion.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zeph. iii. 1 Wo to the abhominable, fylthie and cruel cite.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 45 Ballads..sung to filthie tunes.

1611 Bible (King James) Coloss. iii. 8 You also put off all these, anger..filthy communication out of your mouth.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 264 Being filthy arch and slie, they quickly corrupted the families.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 271. ¶4 The Matron..commended the Discretion of the Writer, for having thrown his filthy Thoughts into Greek.

1766 A. Hume tr. S. A. D. Tissot Onanism viii. 75 The masturbator, entirely devoted to his filthy meditations, is subject to the same disorders as the man of letters who fixes his attention upon a single question.

1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 282 (note) The obscure, queer, filthy, and obscene gods in the ancient rubric.

1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 213 From this heaven the filthy one..descends to the earth to tempt and excite to evil.

1915 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 68 He told me he had written a lot of filthy sexual verse... He described it as Verlainesque, damn his shifty little eyes.

1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse xxiii. 306 Now get along with you, and don't let me hear of your using that filthy word again!

1991 Pink Paper 30 Mar. 18/2 (advt.) Filthy mind in athlete's body seeks raunchy sessions with similar.

2002 Loaded July 54/1 Yes, we all want sex with filthy women. But they can all be filthy when the mood takes them.

2004 Desi June 8/2 Many mothers cribbed that Shanghvi was filling the heads of their kids ‘with all kinds of filthy ideas’.

†3. That seeks out filth (literal and figurative); delighting in filth. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > fond of filth

filthy1526

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] > delighting in

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1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fii The fylthy and stynkyng lust of the body.

1643 J. Swan Speculum Mundi (ed. 2) To Rdr. sig. ¶4 Like a filthie flie she seeks all over the body for a soare.

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Notes 28 The filthy animals that frequent such places.

4. Highly offensive to the senses; (of a smell, taste, sound, etc.) extremely unpleasant, disgusting. Also in later use colloquial: awful, terrible.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > disgusting

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walsh1513

filthy1533

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foul1560

maumish1580

nasty1601

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distasteful1611

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mawkisha1697

disgusting1754

pukey1852

brackish1871

wambly1899

bogging1973

feechie1975

angin1994

1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico iv. f. 8 Through coldnes of the stomak & filthy stench, thei lost appetite.

1599 Warning for Faire Women sig. A2 What yet more Cats guts? O this filthie sound Stifles mine ears..Ile cut your fiddle strings, If you stand scraping thus to anger me.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. iv, in Wks. I. 15 He dos take this same filthy roguish tabacco!

1638 R. Mayeres Trav. 14 Many a filthy root my taste assay'd.

1729 J. Braithwaite Hist. Revol. in Morocco 125 The Streets are full of dead Dogs, Cats, &c. which are an odious and filthy Sight.

1798 S. Porter tr. A. von Kotzebue Lovers' Vows iv. ii. 75 Even the hair, the very hair, attracts the filthy smell.

1841 Metropolitan 30 279 ‘Rebecca, hold thy filthy noise!’ exclaimed the quaker mistress.

1888 Cent. Mag. Jan. 363/2 Why do you have this stinking carrion in your picture? Put it out, it's filthy!

1931 M. A. Dormie Snobs 46 I caught a filthy cold, which lasted three solid days.

1935 N. Coward We were Dancing ii. 24 Hubert. Would you like another sandwich, dear?.. Louise... No, thank you,..they're filthy.

1989 Decanter Nov. 144/3 The wine tasted filthy and I was dismayed.

2010 C. Schine Three Weissmanns of Westport xv. 213 She disliked the fog,..the smell of the ocean—its filthy odor of rotting seaweed and rotting shellfish.

5. Disgraceful, contemptible, low. In later use colloquial as an intensifier.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]

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scungy1966

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible

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motherfucking1890

snidey1890

pilgarlicky1894

shitass1895

shoddy1918

yah boo1921

bitching1929

shit-faced1932

turdish1936

fricking1937

jerk-off1937

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

snot-nosed1941

jerky1944

mother-loving1948

scroungy1948

fecking1952

pissant1952

shit-kicking1953

shit-eating1956

bumboclaat1957

rassclaat1957

shit-headed1959

farkakte1960

shithouse1966

daggy1967

dipshit1968

scuzzy1969

bloodclaat1971

bitch ass1972

wanky1972

streelish1974

twatty1975

twattish1976

dweeby1988

douchey1991

wank1991

cockish1996

1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani sig. A.iiij^v Thou warrest..with fylthy tytle or quarell.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 158 Neuer so filthy a fare hade fallyn in his hond.

1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 429/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II This murther of the king was one of the most filthiest acts that euer was done in Scotland.

1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 166 Taking other errours from other filthie heretiques.

1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 42 The filty love of gaine.

1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. ii. 81 What's his filthy Name?

1799 P. Spindleshanks Battle Two Taylors 6 I aint so big de sinner As you, who no say grace at dinner..you, de lousy filty rat, Fine Citizen, de democrat!

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 119 Thou filthy weaver of rotten worsted.

1899 F. Norris Blix 207 ‘We aren't selling bacon to deserters,’ cried Moran; ‘and I'll tell you this, you filthy little monkey: Mr. Wilbur and I are going home’.

1927 U. Sinclair Oil! xx. 495 Verne, the filthy swine, had put that trick over on them!

1960 P. Hastings Sandals for my Feet ii. vi. 192 You shan't do this to me, you filthy old cow!

2006 Independent (Nexis) 1 Nov. 32 A bunch of conniving, cheating, deceitful, filthy liars.

a. Of a temper, mood, etc.: highly disagreeable, angry, bad, ‘foul’.

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1887 Sporting Times 15 Jan. 4/4 When Sarah the Spy has recovered from her present filthy temper, she will be taken notice of again.

1925 Quiver Nov. 85/1 You can never tell what a filthy temper like that may lead a man to do.

1934 G. Heyer Unfinished Clue x. 164 Father was in such a filthy mood. I've no doubt he'd have stumped up in the end.

1985 G. Montero Summer Whales Sang xvii. 120 They were in a filthy frame of mind, even worse than at lunchtime.

2013 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 23 Feb. (Review section) 20 The two end up in bed together. George, who has a filthy temper, stumbles in on them and kills his wife with a bedside lamp.

b. colloquial (Australian and New Zealand). Of a person: extremely angry, annoyed, or upset. to be (also get, etc.) filthy on: to be, get, etc., extremely angry or annoyed with.

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1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 7 July (Sports Extra section) 7/5 Just filthy on myself for leaving my gold skimmer at home. It goes perfectly with our track suit.

1992 Business Rev. Weekly (Austral.) 1 May 60/2 Most buyers don't get filthy on a new car until the second or third unsuccessful attempt to fix a fault, and even then their anger tends to be directed at the dealer.

1996 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 July 3/2 Two mates who cracked FootyTAB's record $2 million jackpot were ‘filthy’ when they thought they had lost $250 on Monday's rugby league game.

2015 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Mar. (Sport section) 108 ‘I've seen a couple of 12s’ (Bellamy's anger level out of 10)... ‘They’ (the coaches) ‘were pretty filthy and we were pretty filthy on ourselves.’

7. Of a look, glance, etc.: expressing disgust, anger, or extreme disapproval.

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1922 Burlington (Iowa) Gaz. 8 Apr. 14/8 In this jargon [that flappers speak], ‘brutal’ means very nice... ‘Filthy look’ means scowl or disapproval.

1947 S. S. Keiner & D. Gorden Doctor, don't let me Die v. 74 I sweated like a Turk in a harem. The surgeon gave me some very filthy glances.

1999 Plays Internat. Jan. 39/2 Sammy continues his work, trying not to laugh, until Bobby gives him a filthy stare which sends him scuttling into the dug-out.

2002 Observer 29 Dec. i. 15/1 It's usually only me fagging it before the meal, and afterwards, when other diners cadge one, I get filthy looks from their partners for having reopened the nicotine wound.

8. colloquial. Designating music having a heavy bassline, beat, or rhythm, typically with a distorted electronic sound; of or relating to music of this type.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop

metal?1518

anthemic1890

Afro-Latin-American1900

sun-kissed1907

heavy1937

Latin American1937

Memphis1938

sun-drenched1943

indie1945

rockish1955

hardcore1957

doo-wop1958

middle of the road1959

Latin1962

straight-ahead1964

easy listening1965

Motown1965

funky1967

post-rock1967

rocky1967

rock-out1968

funkadelic1969

funked out1970

grungy1971

punk1971

grunge1972

Philly1972

dub1973

drum and bass1975

disco funky1976

punkish1976

reggaefied1976

Britpop1977

post-punk1977

anarcho-punk1979

rap1980

trash rock1980

crunchy1981

industrial1981

New Romantic1981

rockist1981

garage1982

hip-hop1982

thrashy1982

urban1982

Gothic1983

hip-hopping1983

beat-box1984

lo-fi1986

technoid1986

hip-house1987

acid house1988

new jack1988

old school1988

techno1988

baggy1990

banging1990

gangsta1990

filthy1991

handbaggy1991

nu skool1991

sampladelic1991

junglist1993

1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 55/1 Roy Bittan's holy sustained Moog-worship gushing geyser-like out of Mick Ronson's filthy bee-stung funk-mulch.

1998 Touch July 93/1 The flipside ‘So Good’ sounds typically Dread with its fierce and filthy basslines.

2002 Adrenalin No. 13. 118 Rip it up on the go-kart Track [sic] at 4am to the sounds of filthy squat party music whilst ‘spazed off your tits’.

2007 Clash July 129/3 The divine Uffie, Feadz, Mehdi and Justice all doing their bit to justify the global hype with massive basslines, filthy drums, warped breakdowns and an occasional 80's sample.

B. n.

1. With the and plural agreement: filthy people collectively. Also as a count noun: a filthy person (usually in plural).

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]

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scabbardc1440

slotterbugc1440

drivel1498

sow1508

wallydraigle?a1513

sloven1530

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ketterela1572

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slubberdegullion1612

Grobian1621

slabberdegullion1653

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slush1825

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trashbag1887

crumb1918

garbage can1925

hog1932

crud1940

sordid1959

grot1970

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

queanOE

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fie-fie1820

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1553 J. Bradford Serm. Repentaunce sig. H.vj The euyl spirite moueth and stirreth vp the fylthy, to be yet more fylthy.

1581 T. Lovell Dialogue Custom & Veritie sig. Dvi For filthies they haue filthy songs, for bandes lasciuious times.

1665 R. B. Revelation of God 14 The filthy must have time to fill up their measure.

1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune i. i. 8 Damn'd Whores, hout ye filthies.

1715 in S. Wright Treat. being Born Again Let. to Author p. iii The Filthy, who will be Filthy still.

1832 Jrnl. Health 3 329 The enervated constitutions of..the squalid and the filthy, have but in very few instances withstood the malady.

1885 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 23 May 11/2 As cleanliness is godliness, the filthy must be wicked.

1922 T. H. Kennedy Siege of Sisco 75 The filthy are by gods accurst.

1956 C. S. Lewis Till we have Faces i. i. 14 Quick, quick! Ah, you filthies! Come and be cleaned and then to the King.

1999 Anglo-Norman Stud. 21 75 The filthy are cleansed of the stains of ancient sin.

2. colloquial. With the: money; = filthy lucre n. at Compounds 3. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

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Mammon1539

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Oscar Asche1905

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bread1935

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acker1939

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poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps II. xi. 175 I can catch my own [rats], without any appeal to ‘the Filthy’!

1931 P. G. Wodehouse If I were You ii. 27 Just trying to make a bit of the filthy.

1945 F. Fay How to be Poor 20 I put away chunks and gobs of the ‘filthy’ for the ‘rainy days’.

C. adv.

1. = filthily adv. In later use colloquial.See also filthy dirty adj. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adverb]

uncleanlyc1438

filthily?1526

filthy1571

dirtily1598

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adverb] > lewdly, bawdily, or obscenely

ribaldously1481

filthily?1526

ribaldiouslyc1530

dishonestly1560

filthy1571

prostitutely1594

obscenely1598

obscenously1606

lewdly1609

bawdily1629

fulsomely1657

smuttily1672

ribaldly1846

1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. F.vii (margin) Children must be prohihited [sic] to speak filthy.

1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 93^v Modesty shutteth a young mans lippes..so that he will not talke filthy.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xi. 110 The Brasilians have their Lips bored, wherein they wear stones so big and long, that they reach to their Breast, which makes them shew filthy fine.

1883 F. Barrett Honest Davie II. vii. 150 I..drank a nip of brandy—and filthy bad brandy it was, too.

1986 R. C. Wilson Hidden Place vi. 62 How do you think that makes me feel, Travis?..Act filthy like that while you're living under my roof?

2013 L. Mann Class A ii. 31 The former college players talk filthy about keg stands and spring break.

2. colloquial. Extremely, enormously, esp. offensively or disgustingly so. Only with reference to drunkenness or (esp.) wealth, usually in filthy rich. Cf. stinking adj. e.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad

sorea1300

grievously1340

terrible1490

beastly?1518

shrewdlyc1533

arrantly?1548

murrainly?1548

abominablea1550

pestilence1567

pestilently1567

cursedly1570

pestiferously1570

murrain1575

plaguey1584

plaguilya1586

grievous1598

scandalously1602

horridly1603

terribly1604

monstrously1611

hellish1614

dreadfullya1616

horrid1615

pestilenta1616

infernally1638

preposterously1661

woeful1684

confoundedly1694

confounded1709

glaringly1709

cursed1719

flagrantly1756

weary1790

disgustingly1804

filthy1827

blamed1833

peskily1833

pesky1833

blame1843

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wickedly1858

blatantly1878

shamelessly1885

disgracefully1893

ruddy1913

bastarda1935

pissing1951

sodding1954

pissingly1971

1827 Messenger for Holston Conf. 16 June 381 We saw two individuals staggering through the middle of the street most filthy drunk.

1905 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 9 Nov. 4/4 It may be just as well..not to wonder who those filthy rich people are speeding by in the ski-doodle cart.

1957 Daily Defender (Chicago) 23 July 16/5 What's good enough for great-big soldiers and filthy-wealthy millionaires is good enough for you kiddies.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 1/3 He told me he was filthy rich.

1993 Indian Country Today 3 Mar. a4 It is not cool and it certainly is not traditional to get filthy drunk or to fry your brains with drugs.

2008 B. J. Hoff Song of Erin xiii. 73 She might tolerate him well enough at a banquet table; since she, no doubt, believed him to be filthy rich.

Compounds

C1.

a. Forming parasynthetic and complementary adjectives.Recorded earliest in filthy-minded adj. at Compounds 1b.

ΚΠ

1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia f. 62^v So many churlish and filthy minded parents.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 182 I left them I'th' filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell.

1661 T. Taylor Gods Controversie with Eng. Declared (single sheet) Ye forgetters of God, ye filthy hearted People.

1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 70 Where filthy-handed Mammon dwells.

1884 G. Turner Samoa xvii. 194 The filthy-tongued Rabshakeh.

1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 125 Filthy tempered woman.

1996 Times 14 Mar. 40/3 A filthy-sounding weekly musical called Co-Ed Prison Slots [read Sluts].

2014 P. Grossman Brotherhood of Fear xxv. 224 The filthy-faced man broke a baguette and handed Willi a piece.

filthy-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1785 L. Peacock Adventures Six Princesses Babylon 76 He was dressed in a coarse filthy-looking garment.

1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Sept. 656 Filthy-looking people.

1921 A. Kalpashnikoff Prisoner of Trotsky's xiii. 239 An enormous, filthy looking place, more like a stable than anything else.

2014 Sun (Nexis) 9 Nov. 28 It's terrible when you are trying to wash your dishes and you see filthy-looking water coming out of your tap.

filthy-minded adj.

ΚΠ

1598Filthy minded [see Compounds 1a].

1657 H. Pinnell tr. O. Croll Philos. Reformed 1 Rashly to prostitute the Treasures of Nature to unworthy and filthy minded men.

1817 J. Abernethy Physiol. Lect. iv. 165 The aforesaid Abbé was a filthy-minded fellow.

2000 A. R. Badami Hero's Walk (2001) xi. 196 Her eyes darted about.., constantly on the lookout for book thieves and filthy-minded teenagers.

C2. Appositive or adverbial.

filthy dirty adj. colloquial extremely dirty.

ΚΠ

1836 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 344 All were filthy dirty,..particularly a muscular man as black as a negro.

1843 Knickerbocker 21 122 His trousers [were] ‘filthy dirty’ and pulled up above the tops of his boots.

1949 T. Coley & W. Roerick Happiest Years iii. 108 You have to wash...You're filthy dirty.

1992 N. Hornby Fever Pitch 211 Just lying there, filthy dirty and somewhat torn but there nonetheless, a twenty-year-old Peter Marinello bubblegum card.

C3.

filthy lucre n. dishonourable gain; (later in weakened use, esp. humorously) money. [After Hellenistic Greek αἰσχρὸν κέρδος (Titus 1:11; compare quot. 1526); compare post-classical Latin turpe lucrum (Vulgate), perhaps Tyndale's immediate model.]

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun]

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profita1382

profity1432

revenue1433

fruitc1450

luck?a1475

improvement1478

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entrataa1538

a quick return1583

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advenue1600

coming in1600

income1601

intrade1604

intrado1609

ingate1621

audit1625

increment1631

indraught1633

velvet1901

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit as motive > low

lucrec1380

advantagea1400

filthy lucre1526

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Titus i. f. cclxxxiij^v Teachynge thyngs which they ought nott, because off filthy lucre [Gk. αἰσχροῦ κέρδους χάριν].

1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani sig. b. j. Bolstryng vp therwith their fylthy lucre [L. lucris turpibus] & tyranny.

1638 G. Langbaine tr. G. Ranchin Rev. Councell Trent ii. iv. 78 What shift can wee use to excuse from dishonest and filthy lucre [Fr. vn gain sale & deshonneste] those things which they call graces expectative.

1758 J. Wesley Let. 24 Aug. (1931) IV. 32 The love of filthy lucre will appear either by the use they make of it or the means of getting it.

1855 A. Trollope Warden xi. 175 No man lived less addicted to filthy lucre than the warden.

1928 A. Huxley Let. 19 July (1969) 301 A considerable sale..and a corresponding quantity of filthy lucre.

2012 Independent 10 Nov. 2/4 The desire to obtain filthy lucre in the midst of an industry-wide advertising slowdown took over.

filthy parts n. rare after 17th cent. the private parts, the genitals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]

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shameOE

i-cundeOE

memberc1300

privy memberc1325

kindc1330

privitiesc1375

harness1382

shameful parts1382

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partc1390

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thingc1405

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1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cvj^v The inhabitantes [of Zanzibar]..haue almost no apparel, couering onely theyr fylthy partes [L. uerenda].

1606 T. Whetenhall Disc. Abuses 183 They cannot abide to kisse or any part of her [sc. the Whore of Babylon], neither finger, hand, nor foote: much lesse her filthy parts.

2008 S. S. Morrison Excrement in Late Middle Ages vii. 91 Leo expresses disbelief at the concept of belief in a God who descended from the filthy parts of a woman.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	filthy
释义	filthyadj.n.adv. Brit. /ˈfɪlθi/, U.S. /ˈfɪlθi/ Forms: see filth n. and -y suffix¹. See also feelthy adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: filth n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < filth n. + -y suffix¹. A. adj. 1. a. Covered with or consisting of filth; disgustingly or offensively dirty; foul, unclean. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Zech. iii. 3 Jhesus was clothid with filthi [L. sordidis] clothis. a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 31 (MED) Of slimositee & filþi coloracioun of teeþ. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xcv. sig. ffvi^v/1 [A serpent] louyth fylthi places. ?1543 M. Coverdale Christen Exhortacion f. 25 The fylthye myre in the stretes that we spurne forth with oure fete. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxv. 131 To go home thorough stinking streates, and filthy lanes. 1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III ii. sig. G4 A filthy Carpet fits an ordur'd Thought. 1682 T. Otway Epil. Venice Preserv'd (single sheet) From the filthy Dunghil-faction bred, New-form'd Rebellion durst rear up its head. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ⁋3 The benches around are so filthy, that no one can sit down. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 257 Filthy metal that one could not touch without daubing one's fingers. 1802 Med. Repository 5 204 The filthy dwelling where the illness was contracted. 1869 Lancet 22 May 709/1 The filthy air, and the constant exposure to wet.., are sufficient to destroy the soundest constitution. 1910 A. R. Dugmore Camera Adventures Afr. Wilds ii. 18 We reached the Olgerei River, and pitched our camp near a filthy water hole. 1982 G. M. Fraser Flashman & Redskins 175 The whole place was filthy with refuse. 2001 Victorian Nov. 8/3 Bedraggled waifs with matted hair and filthy clothes. †b. Of ground, soil, etc.: muddy, miry. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire > abounding in slag1440 miryc1443 muddyc1450 filthy1566 mire1673 sloughy1704 sleechy1792 guttery1808 slubby1823 grooty1848 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. liii. f. 320 In place of a pure foundacion, thy building is reared vpon a light sande, and vnconstant ground, or else vpon a filthy and foule quamire. 1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria Aunc. Hist. Romanes Warres i. 270 Some [money] was hidden in the ground, some in filthy pittes, and some in graves. 1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry ix. 64 If this marrish and filthy ground doe not lie so low as these low valleyes,..first open the heads of all the Springs you can find. 1766 R. Wynne tr. Tacitus in H. S. Reimarus Principal Truths Nat. Relig. 37 In general it [sc. Germany] is over-run with gloomy woods or filthy marshes. 1822 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Sept. 230/2 Innumerable little springs, sending forth their bounteous streams through small muddy fissures of black and filthy soil. c. Of weather: very unpleasant; (typically) spec. wet, cold, and windy. colloquial (chiefly British) in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] starkOE unkindc1330 foulc1390 distemperate1398 distempered1490 untemperate1525 intemperate1526 naughty1541 intempered1556 unkindly1579 sour1582 unclement1598 filthy1600 nasty1634 dirty1660 inclement1667 inclemental1709 wretched1711 foul-weather1750 ungenial1816 wersh1830 shabby1853 1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 807 We lay in Harborough vntill the three and twentieth of Februarie, by reason of contrary windes and most vile and filthie fowle weather. 1629 T. Browne tr. W. Camden Hist. Elizabeth iv. 380 Defect of health and strength, which the indisposition of the aire.., being a filthy, windy, and rainy day, much improoued. 1703 W. B. Ingenii Fructus (ed. 3) 134 In troth, you need not be so Merry; for if this Wind continues, you are like to have foul and filthy Weather. 1823 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 574/1 I've hardly a day to do weel ; an' this filthy weather gies them aye anither eik. 1895 ‘G. Mortimer’ Tales Western Moors 290 You'm only half a notion o' weather till you'm atop of Darteymoor when 'tis filthy. 1955 Times 3 May 5/2 They were hove-to off Thyborön in filthy weather. 2008 Observer (Nexis) 12 Oct. 18 The weather was filthy out at sea in Alicante. †d. Of air or clouds: murky, thick. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > thick (of clouds) thicky1587 filthya1616 solid1807 the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid troublyc1380 greata1398 murkc1480 mistyc1485 foggyc1487 troublea1500 grossa1592 fat1598 filthya1616 thick1626 murky1667 turbid1705 solid1807 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. iii. 114 The coole and temperate Wind of Grace O're-blowes the filthy and contagious Clouds. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. i. 11 Houer through the fogge and filthie ayre. View more context for this quotation 2. figurative. Morally foul or corrupt; obscene, disgusting, immoral, offensive. In recent use also with neutral or positive connotation: sexually uninhibited, wanton. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > morally foul fennyc897 foulOE sutya1225 lousyc1386 rustyc1390 filthy?c1400 feculent1471 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene lewdc1386 filthy?c1400 knavishc1405 sensual?a1425 ribaldousc1440 dishonestc1450 bawdya1513 ribald?a1513 ribaldious?1518 slovenly?1518 ribaldry1519 priapish1531 ribaldish?1533 filthous1551 ribaldly1570 obscene1571 bawdisha1586 obscenous1591 greasy1598 dirty1599 fulsome1600 spurcitious1658 lasciviating1660 smutty1668 bawdry1764 ribaldric1796 un-Quakerlike1824 fat1836 ithyphallic1856 hot1892 rorty1898 rude1919 bitchy1928 feelthy1930 raunchy1943 ranchy1959 down and dirty1969 steamy1970 sleazo1972 ?c1400 tr. Secreta Secret. (Sloane) (1977) 11 (MED) I biheld and knewe me schapli to þese thynges filthy and reprouable. c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 309 (MED) Our fylþy flesshe, so full of corupcion. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zeph. iii. 1 Wo to the abhominable, fylthie and cruel cite. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 45 Ballads..sung to filthie tunes. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Coloss. iii. 8 You also put off all these, anger..filthy communication out of your mouth. View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 264 Being filthy arch and slie, they quickly corrupted the families. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 271. ¶4 The Matron..commended the Discretion of the Writer, for having thrown his filthy Thoughts into Greek. 1766 A. Hume tr. S. A. D. Tissot Onanism viii. 75 The masturbator, entirely devoted to his filthy meditations, is subject to the same disorders as the man of letters who fixes his attention upon a single question. 1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 282 (note) The obscure, queer, filthy, and obscene gods in the ancient rubric. 1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law 213 From this heaven the filthy one..descends to the earth to tempt and excite to evil. 1915 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 68 He told me he had written a lot of filthy sexual verse... He described it as Verlainesque, damn his shifty little eyes. 1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse xxiii. 306 Now get along with you, and don't let me hear of your using that filthy word again! 1991 Pink Paper 30 Mar. 18/2 (advt.) Filthy mind in athlete's body seeks raunchy sessions with similar. 2002 Loaded July 54/1 Yes, we all want sex with filthy women. But they can all be filthy when the mood takes them. 2004 Desi June 8/2 Many mothers cribbed that Shanghvi was filling the heads of their kids ‘with all kinds of filthy ideas’. †3. That seeks out filth (literal and figurative); delighting in filth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > fond of filth filthy1526 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] > delighting in filthy1526 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fii The fylthy and stynkyng lust of the body. 1643 J. Swan Speculum Mundi (ed. 2) To Rdr. sig. ¶4 Like a filthie flie she seeks all over the body for a soare. 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Notes 28 The filthy animals that frequent such places. 4. Highly offensive to the senses; (of a smell, taste, sound, etc.) extremely unpleasant, disgusting. Also in later use colloquial: awful, terrible. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > disgusting queasyc1450 walsh1513 filthy1533 wallowish1548 foul1560 maumish1580 nasty1601 distastable1607 distasteful1611 disgustfula1625 nauseous1649 fulsome1694 mawkisha1697 disgusting1754 pukey1852 brackish1871 wambly1899 bogging1973 feechie1975 angin1994 1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico iv. f. 8 Through coldnes of the stomak & filthy stench, thei lost appetite. 1599 Warning for Faire Women sig. A2 What yet more Cats guts? O this filthie sound Stifles mine ears..Ile cut your fiddle strings, If you stand scraping thus to anger me. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. iv, in Wks. I. 15 He dos take this same filthy roguish tabacco! 1638 R. Mayeres Trav. 14 Many a filthy root my taste assay'd. 1729 J. Braithwaite Hist. Revol. in Morocco 125 The Streets are full of dead Dogs, Cats, &c. which are an odious and filthy Sight. 1798 S. Porter tr. A. von Kotzebue Lovers' Vows iv. ii. 75 Even the hair, the very hair, attracts the filthy smell. 1841 Metropolitan 30 279 ‘Rebecca, hold thy filthy noise!’ exclaimed the quaker mistress. 1888 Cent. Mag. Jan. 363/2 Why do you have this stinking carrion in your picture? Put it out, it's filthy! 1931 M. A. Dormie Snobs 46 I caught a filthy cold, which lasted three solid days. 1935 N. Coward We were Dancing ii. 24 Hubert. Would you like another sandwich, dear?.. Louise... No, thank you,..they're filthy. 1989 Decanter Nov. 144/3 The wine tasted filthy and I was dismayed. 2010 C. Schine Three Weissmanns of Westport xv. 213 She disliked the fog,..the smell of the ocean—its filthy odor of rotting seaweed and rotting shellfish. 5. Disgraceful, contemptible, low. In later use colloquial as an intensifier. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective] theowlikec1175 wickc1175 wretcha1200 lechera1300 vilea1300 feeblea1325 brothely1330 caitiffa1400 roinousa1425 basec1450 harlotry1486 filthy1533 brockish1546 vild1568 tinkerly?1576 scabbed?1577 miscreant1593 unnoble1593 slavish1597 rascally1600 roguish1601 sordidous1602 facinoriousa1616 scullion1658 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 scoundrel1681 scabby1712 verminating1720 small1824 low-down1865 verminiferous1895 ragtime1917 ribby1936 raunchy1937 scungy1966 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani sig. A.iiij^v Thou warrest..with fylthy tytle or quarell. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 158 Neuer so filthy a fare hade fallyn in his hond. 1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 429/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II This murther of the king was one of the most filthiest acts that euer was done in Scotland. 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 166 Taking other errours from other filthie heretiques. 1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 42 The filty love of gaine. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. ii. 81 What's his filthy Name? 1799 P. Spindleshanks Battle Two Taylors 6 I aint so big de sinner As you, who no say grace at dinner..you, de lousy filty rat, Fine Citizen, de democrat! 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 119 Thou filthy weaver of rotten worsted. 1899 F. Norris Blix 207 ‘We aren't selling bacon to deserters,’ cried Moran; ‘and I'll tell you this, you filthy little monkey: Mr. Wilbur and I are going home’. 1927 U. Sinclair Oil! xx. 495 Verne, the filthy swine, had put that trick over on them! 1960 P. Hastings Sandals for my Feet ii. vi. 192 You shan't do this to me, you filthy old cow! 2006 Independent (Nexis) 1 Nov. 32 A bunch of conniving, cheating, deceitful, filthy liars. 6. a. Of a temper, mood, etc.: highly disagreeable, angry, bad, ‘foul’. ΚΠ 1887 Sporting Times 15 Jan. 4/4 When Sarah the Spy has recovered from her present filthy temper, she will be taken notice of again. 1925 Quiver Nov. 85/1 You can never tell what a filthy temper like that may lead a man to do. 1934 G. Heyer Unfinished Clue x. 164 Father was in such a filthy mood. I've no doubt he'd have stumped up in the end. 1985 G. Montero Summer Whales Sang xvii. 120 They were in a filthy frame of mind, even worse than at lunchtime. 2013 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 23 Feb. (Review section) 20 The two end up in bed together. George, who has a filthy temper, stumbles in on them and kills his wife with a bedside lamp. b. colloquial (Australian and New Zealand). Of a person: extremely angry, annoyed, or upset. to be (also get, etc.) filthy on: to be, get, etc., extremely angry or annoyed with. ΚΠ 1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 7 July (Sports Extra section) 7/5 Just filthy on myself for leaving my gold skimmer at home. It goes perfectly with our track suit. 1992 Business Rev. Weekly (Austral.) 1 May 60/2 Most buyers don't get filthy on a new car until the second or third unsuccessful attempt to fix a fault, and even then their anger tends to be directed at the dealer. 1996 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 July 3/2 Two mates who cracked FootyTAB's record $2 million jackpot were ‘filthy’ when they thought they had lost $250 on Monday's rugby league game. 2015 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Mar. (Sport section) 108 ‘I've seen a couple of 12s’ (Bellamy's anger level out of 10)... ‘They’ (the coaches) ‘were pretty filthy and we were pretty filthy on ourselves.’ 7. Of a look, glance, etc.: expressing disgust, anger, or extreme disapproval. ΚΠ 1922 Burlington (Iowa) Gaz. 8 Apr. 14/8 In this jargon [that flappers speak], ‘brutal’ means very nice... ‘Filthy look’ means scowl or disapproval. 1947 S. S. Keiner & D. Gorden Doctor, don't let me Die v. 74 I sweated like a Turk in a harem. The surgeon gave me some very filthy glances. 1999 Plays Internat. Jan. 39/2 Sammy continues his work, trying not to laugh, until Bobby gives him a filthy stare which sends him scuttling into the dug-out. 2002 Observer 29 Dec. i. 15/1 It's usually only me fagging it before the meal, and afterwards, when other diners cadge one, I get filthy looks from their partners for having reopened the nicotine wound. 8. colloquial. Designating music having a heavy bassline, beat, or rhythm, typically with a distorted electronic sound; of or relating to music of this type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop metal?1518 anthemic1890 Afro-Latin-American1900 sun-kissed1907 heavy1937 Latin American1937 Memphis1938 sun-drenched1943 indie1945 rockish1955 hardcore1957 doo-wop1958 middle of the road1959 Latin1962 straight-ahead1964 easy listening1965 Motown1965 funky1967 post-rock1967 rocky1967 rock-out1968 funkadelic1969 funked out1970 grungy1971 punk1971 grunge1972 Philly1972 dub1973 drum and bass1975 disco funky1976 punkish1976 reggaefied1976 Britpop1977 post-punk1977 anarcho-punk1979 rap1980 trash rock1980 crunchy1981 industrial1981 New Romantic1981 rockist1981 garage1982 hip-hop1982 thrashy1982 urban1982 Gothic1983 hip-hopping1983 beat-box1984 lo-fi1986 technoid1986 hip-house1987 acid house1988 new jack1988 old school1988 techno1988 baggy1990 banging1990 gangsta1990 filthy1991 handbaggy1991 nu skool1991 sampladelic1991 junglist1993 1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 55/1 Roy Bittan's holy sustained Moog-worship gushing geyser-like out of Mick Ronson's filthy bee-stung funk-mulch. 1998 Touch July 93/1 The flipside ‘So Good’ sounds typically Dread with its fierce and filthy basslines. 2002 Adrenalin No. 13. 118 Rip it up on the go-kart Track [sic] at 4am to the sounds of filthy squat party music whilst ‘spazed off your tits’. 2007 Clash July 129/3 The divine Uffie, Feadz, Mehdi and Justice all doing their bit to justify the global hype with massive basslines, filthy drums, warped breakdowns and an occasional 80's sample. B. n. 1. With the and plural agreement: filthy people collectively. Also as a count noun: a filthy person (usually in plural). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] mesela1400 scabbardc1440 slotterbugc1440 drivel1498 sow1508 wallydraigle?a1513 sloven1530 filthy1553 ketterela1572 slabberer1611 slubberdegullion1612 Grobian1621 slabberdegullion1653 slobber-chops1670 slate1718 haverel1720 slobberer1732 slummock1760 fleabag1805 slush1825 slob1876 trashbag1887 crumb1918 garbage can1925 hog1932 crud1940 sordid1959 grot1970 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1553 J. Bradford Serm. Repentaunce sig. H.vj The euyl spirite moueth and stirreth vp the fylthy, to be yet more fylthy. 1581 T. Lovell Dialogue Custom & Veritie sig. Dvi For filthies they haue filthy songs, for bandes lasciuious times. 1665 R. B. Revelation of God 14 The filthy must have time to fill up their measure. 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune i. i. 8 Damn'd Whores, hout ye filthies. 1715 in S. Wright Treat. being Born Again Let. to Author p. iii The Filthy, who will be Filthy still. 1832 Jrnl. Health 3 329 The enervated constitutions of..the squalid and the filthy, have but in very few instances withstood the malady. 1885 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 23 May 11/2 As cleanliness is godliness, the filthy must be wicked. 1922 T. H. Kennedy Siege of Sisco 75 The filthy are by gods accurst. 1956 C. S. Lewis Till we have Faces i. i. 14 Quick, quick! Ah, you filthies! Come and be cleaned and then to the King. 1999 Anglo-Norman Stud. 21 75 The filthy are cleansed of the stains of ancient sin. 2. colloquial. With the: money; = filthy lucre n. at Compounds 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps II. xi. 175 I can catch my own [rats], without any appeal to ‘the Filthy’! 1931 P. G. Wodehouse If I were You ii. 27 Just trying to make a bit of the filthy. 1945 F. Fay How to be Poor 20 I put away chunks and gobs of the ‘filthy’ for the ‘rainy days’. C. adv. 1. = filthily adv. In later use colloquial.See also filthy dirty adj. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adverb] uncleanlyc1438 filthily?1526 filthy1571 dirtily1598 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adverb] > lewdly, bawdily, or obscenely ribaldously1481 filthily?1526 ribaldiouslyc1530 dishonestly1560 filthy1571 prostitutely1594 obscenely1598 obscenously1606 lewdly1609 bawdily1629 fulsomely1657 smuttily1672 ribaldly1846 1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. F.vii (margin) Children must be prohihited [sic] to speak filthy. 1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 93^v Modesty shutteth a young mans lippes..so that he will not talke filthy. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xi. 110 The Brasilians have their Lips bored, wherein they wear stones so big and long, that they reach to their Breast, which makes them shew filthy fine. 1883 F. Barrett Honest Davie II. vii. 150 I..drank a nip of brandy—and filthy bad brandy it was, too. 1986 R. C. Wilson Hidden Place vi. 62 How do you think that makes me feel, Travis?..Act filthy like that while you're living under my roof? 2013 L. Mann Class A ii. 31 The former college players talk filthy about keg stands and spring break. 2. colloquial. Extremely, enormously, esp. offensively or disgustingly so. Only with reference to drunkenness or (esp.) wealth, usually in filthy rich. Cf. stinking adj. e. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad sorea1300 grievously1340 terrible1490 beastly?1518 shrewdlyc1533 arrantly?1548 murrainly?1548 abominablea1550 pestilence1567 pestilently1567 cursedly1570 pestiferously1570 murrain1575 plaguey1584 plaguilya1586 grievous1598 scandalously1602 horridly1603 terribly1604 monstrously1611 hellish1614 dreadfullya1616 horrid1615 pestilenta1616 infernally1638 preposterously1661 woeful1684 confoundedly1694 confounded1709 glaringly1709 cursed1719 flagrantly1756 weary1790 disgustingly1804 filthy1827 blamed1833 peskily1833 pesky1833 blame1843 blasted1854 wickedly1858 blatantly1878 shamelessly1885 disgracefully1893 ruddy1913 bastarda1935 pissing1951 sodding1954 pissingly1971 1827 Messenger for Holston Conf. 16 June 381 We saw two individuals staggering through the middle of the street most filthy drunk. 1905 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 9 Nov. 4/4 It may be just as well..not to wonder who those filthy rich people are speeding by in the ski-doodle cart. 1957 Daily Defender (Chicago) 23 July 16/5 What's good enough for great-big soldiers and filthy-wealthy millionaires is good enough for you kiddies. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 1/3 He told me he was filthy rich. 1993 Indian Country Today 3 Mar. a4 It is not cool and it certainly is not traditional to get filthy drunk or to fry your brains with drugs. 2008 B. J. Hoff Song of Erin xiii. 73 She might tolerate him well enough at a banquet table; since she, no doubt, believed him to be filthy rich. Compounds C1. a. Forming parasynthetic and complementary adjectives.Recorded earliest in filthy-minded adj. at Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia f. 62^v So many churlish and filthy minded parents. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 182 I left them I'th' filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell. View more context for this quotation 1661 T. Taylor Gods Controversie with Eng. Declared (single sheet) Ye forgetters of God, ye filthy hearted People. 1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 70 Where filthy-handed Mammon dwells. 1884 G. Turner Samoa xvii. 194 The filthy-tongued Rabshakeh. 1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 125 Filthy tempered woman. 1996 Times 14 Mar. 40/3 A filthy-sounding weekly musical called Co-Ed Prison Slots [read Sluts]. 2014 P. Grossman Brotherhood of Fear xxv. 224 The filthy-faced man broke a baguette and handed Willi a piece. b. filthy-looking adj. ΚΠ 1785 L. Peacock Adventures Six Princesses Babylon 76 He was dressed in a coarse filthy-looking garment. 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Sept. 656 Filthy-looking people. 1921 A. Kalpashnikoff Prisoner of Trotsky's xiii. 239 An enormous, filthy looking place, more like a stable than anything else. 2014 Sun (Nexis) 9 Nov. 28 It's terrible when you are trying to wash your dishes and you see filthy-looking water coming out of your tap. filthy-minded adj. ΚΠ 1598Filthy minded [see Compounds 1a]. 1657 H. Pinnell tr. O. Croll Philos. Reformed 1 Rashly to prostitute the Treasures of Nature to unworthy and filthy minded men. 1817 J. Abernethy Physiol. Lect. iv. 165 The aforesaid Abbé was a filthy-minded fellow. 2000 A. R. Badami Hero's Walk (2001) xi. 196 Her eyes darted about.., constantly on the lookout for book thieves and filthy-minded teenagers. C2. Appositive or adverbial. filthy dirty adj. colloquial extremely dirty. ΚΠ 1836 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 344 All were filthy dirty,..particularly a muscular man as black as a negro. 1843 Knickerbocker 21 122 His trousers [were] ‘filthy dirty’ and pulled up above the tops of his boots. 1949 T. Coley & W. Roerick Happiest Years iii. 108 You have to wash...You're filthy dirty. 1992 N. Hornby Fever Pitch 211 Just lying there, filthy dirty and somewhat torn but there nonetheless, a twenty-year-old Peter Marinello bubblegum card. C3. filthy lucre n. dishonourable gain; (later in weakened use, esp. humorously) money. [After Hellenistic Greek αἰσχρὸν κέρδος (Titus 1:11; compare quot. 1526); compare post-classical Latin turpe lucrum (Vulgate), perhaps Tyndale's immediate model.] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] renta1225 winningsc1380 profita1382 profity1432 revenue1433 fruitc1450 luck?a1475 improvement1478 apports1481 penny-rent1502 importance1505 filthy lucre1526 rentally1534 entrataa1538 a quick return1583 incoming1596 entratec1599 advenue1600 coming in1600 income1601 intrade1604 intrado1609 ingate1621 audit1625 increment1631 indraught1633 velvet1901 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit as motive > low lucrec1380 advantagea1400 filthy lucre1526 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Titus i. f. cclxxxiij^v Teachynge thyngs which they ought nott, because off filthy lucre [Gk. αἰσχροῦ κέρδους χάριν]. 1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani sig. b. j. Bolstryng vp therwith their fylthy lucre [L. lucris turpibus] & tyranny. 1638 G. Langbaine tr. G. Ranchin Rev. Councell Trent ii. iv. 78 What shift can wee use to excuse from dishonest and filthy lucre [Fr. vn gain sale & deshonneste] those things which they call graces expectative. 1758 J. Wesley Let. 24 Aug. (1931) IV. 32 The love of filthy lucre will appear either by the use they make of it or the means of getting it. 1855 A. Trollope Warden xi. 175 No man lived less addicted to filthy lucre than the warden. 1928 A. Huxley Let. 19 July (1969) 301 A considerable sale..and a corresponding quantity of filthy lucre. 2012 Independent 10 Nov. 2/4 The desire to obtain filthy lucre in the midst of an industry-wide advertising slowdown took over. filthy parts n. rare after 17th cent. the private parts, the genitals. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] shapea1000 shameOE i-cundeOE memberc1300 privy memberc1325 kindc1330 privitiesc1375 harness1382 shameful parts1382 genitoriesa1387 partc1390 tailc1390 genitalsa1393 thingc1405 genitalc1450 privy parts1533 secret1535 loin?1541 genitures1548 filthy parts1553 shamefulness1561 ware1561 meatc1564 natural places1569 secret members1577 lady ware1592 natural parts1601 lady's ware1608 gear1611 private parts1623 groin1631 pudendums1634 natural1650 privacies1656 sex1664 secrecyc1675 nudities1677 affair1749 sexual parts1753 person1824 sex organ1847 privates1940 naughty bits1972 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cvj^v The inhabitantes [of Zanzibar]..haue almost no apparel, couering onely theyr fylthy partes [L. uerenda]. 1606 T. Whetenhall Disc. Abuses 183 They cannot abide to kisse or any part of her [sc. the Whore of Babylon], neither finger, hand, nor foote: much lesse her filthy parts. 2008 S. S. Morrison Excrement in Late Middle Ages vii. 91 Leo expresses disbelief at the concept of belief in a God who descended from the filthy parts of a woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). filthyv. Brit. /ˈfɪlθi/, U.S. /ˈfɪlθi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: filthy adj. Etymology: < filthy adj. Compare earlier filth v., and also earlier filthied adj. 1. transitive. To make filthy (literal and figurative).In quot. 1627 intransitive with reflexive meaning. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty [verb (transitive)] uncleanseOE horyc1200 befoulc1320 behorewe1340 file1340 flobber1377 smatterc1386 foulc1400 slurryc1440 filtha1450 sowla1450 sollc1480 bawdy1495 squagea1500 arrayc1525 ray1526 bawdc1529 beray1530 filthify1545 belime1555 soss1557 embroyn1566 dirt1570 filthy1581 turpifya1586 dirty1591 muck1618 bedirt1622 bedirty1623 smooch1631 dight1632 fewma1637 snuddle1661 bepaw1684 puddle1698 nasty1707 muddify1739 scavenger1806 mucky1828 squalidize1837 mullock1861 muddy1893 1581 E. Hutchins Davids Sling against Great Goliah 14 My bodie and soule..are dailie filthied in the puddle of iniquitie. 1627 W. Malone Reply Iames Vssher his Answere i. x. 75 They haue rather filthied then washed: rather wounded then cured. 1835 Morning Post 18 July 4/2 We have fouled our friends, and filthied our pages. 1887 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 32 521 He..tore his bedding, and filthied his room. 1912 R. Lynd Rambles in Ireland i. 40 I watched the baby filthying its mouth with that odious piece of carnality. 1967 ‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) xi. 137 Cigarette butts and spilled liquids filthied the floor. 2011 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 26 May 17 History..will surely judge the 20th century for its sacrificial approach to past and future,..filthying lives unborn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.adv.c1384v.1581
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filthyadj.n.adv.

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filthyv.