filthyadj.n.adv.
/ˈfɪlθi/, U.S. /ˈfɪlθi/ A. adj.† 3. That seeks out filth (literal and figurative); delighting in filth. Obsolete.
1. † b. Of ground, soil, etc.: muddy, miry. Obsolete.† d. Of air or clouds: murky, thick. Obsolete.
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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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. ffviv/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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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’.
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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
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.
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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.
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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
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wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
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feeblea1325
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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.iiijv 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.
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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]
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
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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
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nymph1563
limmer1566
tomboy1566
Marian1567
mort1567
cockatrice1568
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blowze1573
rannell1573
rig1575
Kita1577
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Hiren1600
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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
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cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
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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. 93v 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. 62v 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. cclxxxiijv 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. Cvjv 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.
/ˈfɪlθi/, U.S. /ˈfɪlθi/ 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).
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