grime en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɡɹaɪm/
Etymology
From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized use of Old English grīma (“mask”), from Proto-West Germanic *grīmō, from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”). Likely influenced by dialectal Dutch grijmsel (“grit, grime”), Dutch grijm (“soot, grime”), Middle Dutch gryme (“mask”), Middle Low German greme (“dirt”), compare Danish grime (“a halter”), Danish grimet (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (“soiled, stripy”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
[…] ſhe ſweats a man may go ouer ſhoes in the grime of it.
c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 92, column 1:Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- (uncountable) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
Deriveds
grimy · degrime · grindie · grimeless · gunk · grimester · rhythm and grime
Translations (45)
ru грайм (A type of music) · hu piszok (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · ca brutícia (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · bg мръсотия (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · it sporco ostinato (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · de Ruß (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · sv fet smuts (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · es pringue (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · bg кир (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · sq njollë (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · fr saleté (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · de Schmutz (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · ca sutge (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · uk леп (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · nl viezigheid (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · fi pinttymä (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · uk бруд (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · it incrostazione (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · sh garež (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · txb krāke (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · mi pakānoni (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · es roña (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · hu mocsok (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · fr crasse (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · pt grime (A type of music) · gl cotra (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · pt encardimento (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · sv sot (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · cs (zažraná) špína (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · fi töhnä (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · nl afval (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · es carca (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · fi grime (A type of music) · ca sutja (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · ru въевшаяся грязь (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · es mugre (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · fi karsta (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · gl lorda (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · fi pinttynyt lika (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · hu kosz (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · cy parddu (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · mk кир (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · cmn 污垢 (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · cy baw (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove) · sv smuts (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)