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dirty adverb very, extremely; a general intensifier, especially of adjectives of size UK, 1894- I tell yer, this dirty big copper musta been about seven feet tall[.] — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 34, 1962
- Don’t come back here, you dirty little no-good damn layabout. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 18, 1964
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop it Sweet!, 1977
- [Christopher] Mayhew wrote a memo sacking him [Guy Burgess] after a few months for being “dirty drunk and idle.” — David Leigh, 27 January 1978
- Imagine that! A dirty big Arab, living for a whole year on one grain of rice. It’s incredible. — Peter Cook, More Interesting Facts, 1979
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 39, 1998
- [I]t was not getting down the slipway that caused problems for the Titanic, but a dirty great iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. — Larry Elliott, The Guardian Weekly, 17 January 1999
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