/fɪlθ/
OriginFrom Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
- uncountable, usuallyDirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
“Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.”
- uncountable, usuallySmut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
“He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.”
“Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch”
- US, dated, uncountable, usuallyWeeds growing on pasture land.
“Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.”
Formsfilths(plural)