dirtying
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Verb[edit]
dirtying
- present participle and gerund of dirty
Noun[edit]
dirtying (plural dirtyings)
- 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, […]