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# filth

noun (filth — uncountable)

«filth» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Filth is very bad, disgusting dirt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#m1)
2. (informal) Filth is rude, offensive words, pictures or talk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#m2)
3. (UK slang, rude, offensive) «The filth» is a rude word for the police; it is insulting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories it shows poverty or neglect (filth in the streets of Victorian London); in science and health, dirt and germs. In speech, adults may call rude jokes or magazines «filth». Phrases: covered in filth, live in filth, (slang) the filth.

### Examples

- The pigsty was full of filth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x1)
- Victorian streets were covered in filth and smoke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x2)
- Wash the filth off your boots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x3)
- Germs grow in filth, so we keep the kitchen clean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x4)
- Grandad called the rude song «filth» and turned it off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x5)
- (UK slang, rude) In the TV drama the robber shouted, «Run, it's the filth!» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable. Adjective: filthy (very dirty). «Filthy rich» (informal) means very rich. The police meaning is offensive slang; do not use it.

## In Jewish tradition

Isaiah speaks of God washing away the filth of Zion's daughters. Tradition reads this as the cleansing of the people from sin.

**Interpretation.** Commentators see the washing as a purifying judgment, after which Jerusalem becomes holy again.

### Examples

- Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth. (Prophets HOS.5.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/filth/#x1)
- It hath wearied itself with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth. (Prophets EZK.24.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/filth/#x2)
- when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of destruction. (Prophets ISA.4.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/filth/#x3)

### Note

Uncountable. Adjective: filthy (very dirty). «Filthy rich» (informal) means very rich. The police meaning is offensive slang; do not use it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «filth» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «filth» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/filth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«filth» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/filth.html) on Mova free.