Grease vs Filth - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between grease and filth is that grease is animal fat in a melted or soft state while filth is dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles. As a verb grease is to put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
grease Noun
( en noun)
Animal fat in a melted or soft state
(extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Synonyms
* (animal fat) fat, lard
Derived terms
* dirty grease
* elbow grease
* grease-box
* grease bush
* grease gun / grease-gun
* grease-monkey
* grease moth
* grease nipple
* greasepaint / grease-paint
* grease payment
* greaseproof
* greasewood
* greasiness
* greasy
* the squeaky wheel gets the grease
* greaseball
Verb
( greas)
To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
(informal) To bribe.
* Dryden
- the greased advocate that grinds the poor
* {{quote-book, 2008, title=With Lyon in Missouri, author=Byron Archibald Dunn
, passage=Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.}}
* {{quote-book, 2009, title=GOG - an End Time Mystery, author=Dan Richardson
, passage=His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.}}
(transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- ''To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
(slang) To kill, murder.
- Fat cats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
(obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Synonyms
* (put grease or fat on) lard
* (slang for kill or murder) bump off, hit, whack
Derived terms
* greaser
* grease the hand
* grease the wheels
* grease someone's palm
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filth English
Noun
( -)
dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles
smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution
* Tillotson
- to purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights
(British, pejorative, slang) the police
weeds growing on pasture land
- Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.
Derived terms
* filthy
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