July 18, 2007
"Dirty"
Posted by Gordon Smith

"Dirty" is the OED word of the day. Almost always used as an adjective, "dirty" also serves as an adverb in one circumstance:

Used adverbially as an intensive: very, exceedingly. slang.

Examples include this sentence: "I was lying flat on my back when a great dirty black Junkers dropped a big one."  And this: "I'm going to grow a dirty big fig-tree outside my home." And: "Time for a dirty great pint."

That is a dirty cool word.

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