how to pronounce dirty

/ˈdɜː.ti/

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dirty is pronounced in two syllables

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ɜː

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An example use of dirty in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to get your hands dirty get inside the …”

meaning of dirty

Dirty means soiled, filthy, or contaminated with dirt.

dirty frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word dirty occurs in english on average 27.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics dirty can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that dirty can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) people, society, and culture;