Dirt

state when something is not clean; presence of matter that is out of place and foreign so that it impairs the look or feel or usefulness of things
For other uses of "Dirt", see Dirt (disambiguation).

Dirt is an unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin, or possessions. In such cases, they are said to become dirty.

Dirt-covered sidewalk in Brooklyn, NYC being swept during a community clean-up

Quotes

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  • London turns dirt into gold. Rome turned gold into dirt.
    • William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (1872), Chapter IV, "Intellect", pp. 383-4. From the Thinker's Library edition (1943)

See also

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  •   Encyclopedic article on Dirt on Wikipedia
  •   The dictionary definition of dirt on Wiktionary
  •   The dictionary definition of dirty on Wiktionary
  •   Media related to Dirt on Wikimedia Commons