Filth
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"I am filthy. I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. --Les Chants de Maldoror (1869) by Comte de Lautréamont [...] |
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- dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles
- smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution
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Etymology
From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþ (“foulness, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *fūliþō (“foulness, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul, corrupt, dirty, vile”), from Proto-Indo-European *pū- (“rottenness, pus”), equivalent to foul + -th. Cognate with Dutch vuilte (“filth”). More at foul.
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