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filth

noun
/fɪlθ/

Etymology

From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).

  1. inherited from *fūliþu✻
  2. inherited from fȳlþu
  3. inherited from filth

Definitions

  1. Dirt

    Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

    • Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.

  2. Smut

    Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

    • He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.

  3. A vile or disgusting person.

    • I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now.
    • They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Weeds growing on pasture land.

      • Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

    2. The police.

      • We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived.
      • Riding through the city on my bike all day/'Cause the filth took away my licence

    3. Acronym of failed in London, try Hongkong.

      • The British expatriate in Hong Kong has long been known as FILTH.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at filth. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01filth02defiles03defile04unclean05impure06pure07clean08filthy

A definitional loop anchored at filth. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at filth

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA