dirt

*dʰreyd- (Proto-Indo-European)

*dritō (Proto-Germanic)

drit (Old Norse)

drit (Middle English)

dirt (English)

(chiefly, US) Soil or earth.. (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance, filth. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip; kompromat. Freckles (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.