dirt
要点不潔な物
意味
- 不潔な物,汚物;泥,ほこり,ごみ
- 土(soil)
- 無価値なもの
- わい談,春画,わいせつ本(pornography)
- 《話》卑わいな言葉;(特に)卑わいな悪口
例文
When Mary was a child, her family was dirt poor.
メアリーが子供の頃、彼女の家はとても貧乏だった。
The cleanser removed the dirt from the oven.
クレンザーでオーブンの汚れが落ちた。
Those children were covered with dirt from head to foot.
その子供たちは全身ほこりまみれだった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”). The word originally referred to excrement before shifting to the current sense of "soil".