dirtying

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Verb

1. present participle of dirty#English|dirty

Noun

dirtying (plural dirtyings)

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

     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, […]

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