dirtying

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Verb[edit]

dirtying

  1. present participle and gerund of dirty

Noun[edit]

dirtying (plural dirtyings)

  1. A soiling or making dirty.
    • 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor:
      Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, []