What does dirtying mean?

dirtying

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

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verb

present participle and gerund of dirty

noun

"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, […]"

dirtyings (plural)

soilure soiling

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