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dirtying en · NOUN

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  1. A soiling or making dirty.
    • 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, […] 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor:

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soilure

dirtying en · VERB

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  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dirty
    form of dirty