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Idioms and Phrases

A smutty story, as in Teenagers love to tell dirty jokes . The use of dirty in the sense of “obscene” or “indecent” dates from the late 1500s, but its application to a joke began only in the 20th century. The same sense also appears in such expressions as dirty book , for a pornographic book; dirty old man , for a middle-aged or elderly lecher; and dirty word or talk dirty , for a lewd, offensive expression or sexually explicit conversation.
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Example Sentences

Compliments would earn their deliverer a stream of invective, while an insult or dirty joke “would earn his respect.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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