filth

nounnouncommon in dialogue

//fɪlθ//

Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

noun

1
Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.
2
Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.
Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the droſs and filth of ſenſual delights.
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
datedWeeds growing on pasture land.
Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

Etymology

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

noun

1
slangThe 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

Forms

plural: filths

filmmaker · A producer or director of films/movies.filter · A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or…Filter · A surname from German.

filth · Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

filthy · Covered with filth; very dirty.fin · One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to…Fin · commune in the Somme department in France

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