filth
pronunciation
How to pronounce filth in British English:
UK [fɪlθ]
How to pronounce filth in American English:
US [fɪlθ]
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- Noun:
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
- the state of being covered with unclean things
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
Word Origin
- filth
- filth: see foul
- filth (n.)
- Old English fylð "uncleanness, impurity, foulness," from Proto-Germanic *fulitho (cognates: Old Saxon fulitha "foulness, filth," Dutch vuilte, Old High German fulida), noun derivative of *fulo- "foul" (see foul (adj.)). A classic case of i-mutation.
Example
- 1. At last all wells were poisoned , all rivers ran with filth , all seas were dead ; there was no land left to grow food .
- 2. During the monsoon , ms. bedi wrote , " the contents of the clogged sewers would flow back into the barracks , and the stench and filth became internal . "
- 3. When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth .
- 4. We are the only creatures that feel the emotion of disgust , herz says ; animals will spit out something bitter , but they don 't care about frolicking in filth , or carrying carcasses around in their mouths .
- 5. Not a chinese peasant -- it is eckberg who says this , -- goes to town without bringing back with him , at the two extremities of his bamboo pole , two full buckets of what we designate as filth .