griminessn.
/ˈɡrʌɪmɪnɪs/ The quality or state of being grimy.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > griminess
griminess1650
smuttiness1881
1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 85 How the man is frighted into devotion by the smut and griminesse of his own imagination.
1855 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 26 Dec. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iv. 404 A great deal of dirt and griminess on the stone floor of the market-house.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 28 Mr. Rann's leathern apron and subdued griminess can leave no one in any doubt that he is the village shoemaker.
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- limno
- limno-
- lith and limb
- lith film
- lith from lith
- lith-
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- lithaemic
- lithagogue
- litham
- lithanode
- lithanthrax
- litharge
- litharge of bismuth
- litharge of gold
- litharge of lead
- litharge of silver
- litharge-furnace
- litharge-plaster
- litharge-way
- lithargefurnace
- lithargeplaster
- litharges