The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock.

synonym: soil.

Polish: gleba, grunt, ziemia, podłoże

The state of being covered with unclean things.

synonyms: filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain.

Roget 653: uncleanness etc. adj.; impurity; immundity^†, immundicity^†; impurity etc. 961 [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.; defoedation^†; soilure^†, soiliness^†; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture^†; fetor etc. 401^†.    decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo^†.    slovenry^†; slovenliness etc. adj.; squalor.    dowdy, drab, slut, malkin^†, slattern, sloven, slammerkin^†, slammock^†, slummock^†, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark^†, dust-man, sweep; beast.    dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff^†; sossle^†, sozzle^†.    sordes^†, dregs, grounds, lees; argol^†; sediment, settlement heeltap^†; dross, drossiness^†; mother^†, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders.    recrement^†, slag; scum, froth.    hogwash; ditchwater^†, dishwater, bilgewater^†; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings etc. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings^†, outscourings^†; off scum; caput mortuum [Lat.], residuum, sprue, fecula [Lat.], clinker, draff^†; scurf, scurfiness^†; exuviae [Lat.], morphea; fur, furfur^†; dandruff, tartar.    riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch^†.    mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U.S.].    spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery^†; garbage, carrion; excreta etc. 299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria^†; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap [Vulg.], shit [Vulg.]; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.    dunghill, colluvies^†, mixen^†, midden, bog, laystall^†, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess^†, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.    sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable^†, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.    ... show more

Roget 848: blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism^†; flaw, defect etc. (imperfection) 651; injury etc. (deterioration) 659; spots on the sun^†; eyesore.    stain, blot; spot, spottiness; speck, speckle, blur.    tarnish, smudge; dirt etc. 653.    [blemish on a person's skin: list] freckle, mole, macula [Anat.], patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip^†, blubber lip; blain^†, maculation; scar, wem^†; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple etc. (protuberance) 250.    ... show more

Dutch: vet, afval, vuiligheid, vuil, derrie, smurrie, viezigheid
Polish: zabrudzenie się, pobrudzenie się, uwalanie się

Obscene terms for feces.

synonyms: crap, poop, shit, shite, turd.

Dutch: drol, derrie, drek, excrement, faecaliën, faeces, fecaliën, feces, kak, ontlasting, poep, schijt, stront, uitwerpsel ... show more
Polish: gówienko

Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.

synonyms: malicious gossip, scandal.

Dutch: geroddel, smeerlapperij

of roads Not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel.

synonym: ungraded.