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.
Permalink | Language | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Bookmark
Bloggers
Papers
Posts
Recent Comments
- fedgovernor on The Oil Mark
- churgyNuh on GM-Ford Merg
- Stapellufable on Junior Schol
- dissertation on Weight of Hi
- Jake on The Oil Mark
- Cathy on The Oil Mark
- laborprof lpb on Bailout, Uni
- fedgovernor on The Oil Mark
- Brandon P. on BYU v. Utah
- David on What makes a
Random Walk
Our del.icio.us 
Search The Glom
The Glom on Twitter
Archives by Topic
Archives by Date
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
Syndicate The Glom
Enter your email address


Miscellaneous Links




