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Definition of To eat dirt

To eat dirt
Dirt Dirt, n. [OE. drit; kin to Icel. drit excrement, dr[=i]ta to dung, OD. drijten to dung, AS. gedr[=i]tan.] 1. Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. --Is. lvii. 20. 2. Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. --Melmoth. 3. In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing. Dirt bed (Geom.), a layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Dirt beds are common among the coal measures. Dirt eating. (a) The use of certain kinds of clay for food, existing among some tribes of Indians; geophagism. --Humboldt. (b) (Med.) Same as Chthonophagia. Dirt pie, clay or mud molded by children in imitation of pastry. --Otway (1684). To eat dirt, to submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

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- "Dirt Poor Haitians Eat Mud Cookies To Survive". Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 August 2015. Jonathan M. Katz. "Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt". National...
- Eating crow is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proven incorrect, such as to "eat dirt", to "eat one’s hat" (or shoe), or to put...
- times more microbes than a lavatory seat. People and animals may eat dirt. This is thought to be caused by mineral deficiency[citation needed] and so the condition...
- January 2006). "Eating Dirt: It Might Be Good for You". ABC News. Retrieved 30 November 2020. Bhatia MS, Gupta R (2007-05-11). "Pica responding to SSRI: An OCD...
- (the name change) was something she felt she "needed to do". Her second album is titled Eat Dirt and was released March 26, 2012. The album was released...
- of dirt that lingers for hours. Ersatz good Geophagia – Practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates Mud pie Pica Sawdust bread Haitians eat dirt cookies...
- Academy in West Virginia. July 2001: 14-year-old Tony Haynes is forced to eat dirt and dies at a desert boot camp for teenagers. July 15, 2002: Ian August...
- Don't Eat the Dirt... is an EP by Sky Cries Mary, released in 1990 through Lively Art. All tracks are written by Sky Cries Mary, except "Spanish Castle...
- pigs to scent truffles, truffle scent extract, and purified androstenol showed that pigs responded to the first two (actually trying to eat dirt containing...
- fiction at the 2005 Governor General's Awards. Her non-fiction book Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe won...