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Med vs Dirt - What's the difference?

med | dirt |

As an abbreviation med

is (degree ) master of education.

As a noun dirt is

animal.

med

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from medical.

Adjective

(-)
  • (informal) Medical.
    • I'm in med school.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, chiefly, in the plural) medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
    • He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds .
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    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (UK, dialect) may; might
  • * Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    • You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

    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