dirty
part of speech
adjective (dirty, dirtier, dirtiest); verb (dirty, dirties, dirtied — to make dirty)
meaning for a pupil
1) Not clean; covered with dirt, mud, dust or germs. tree →
2) Not fair or honest: a dirty trick. tree →
3) Rude or not nice: a dirty word, a dirty look (an angry look). tree →
4) Verb: to make something dirty. tree →
sense in the lessons
In hygiene: wash dirty hands before eating and after the toilet; dirty hands spread germs; put dirty clothes in the wash. In safety: don't touch dirty needles or rubbish, don't drink dirty water. In stories: a dirty trick is cheating. Phrases: dirty hands, dirty clothes, dirty dishes, get dirty, a dirty trick, a dirty look, dirty water.
examples
- Wash your dirty hands before dinner. tree →
- My shoes got dirty in the mud. tree →
- Put your dirty clothes in the basket. tree →
- Who left these dirty dishes? tree →
- Don't drink dirty water from a puddle. tree →
- Hiding the ball was a dirty trick. tree →
- She gave me a dirty look. tree →
- Gardening is fun, even if you get dirty. tree →
- Knives are dirty things at any time. tree →
note
Comparisons: dirtier, dirtiest (y → i). Opposite: clean. Made from «dirt» + y. Something can look clean and still have germs, so wash with soap.
In the corpora
- Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.
- Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a month causes smells and illness.
- A fine comb gets head lice out, and clean hair gets lice just as easily as dirty hair.
- An anagram uses exactly the same letters in a new order: LISTEN becomes SILENT, and DORMITORY becomes DIRTY ROOM.
- DORMITORY is an anagram of DIRTY ROOM.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dirty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.