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Dirge vs Dirt - What's the difference?

dirge | dirt |

As nouns the difference between dirge and dirt

is that dirge is a mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person while dirt is animal.

dirge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

    • Synonyms

    * lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

    Related terms

    * dirgeful

    Anagrams

    * *

    dirt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
    • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
    • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

    • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty