Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The police.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryDirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles. · Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. · A vile or disgusting person. · Weeds growing on pasture land.
From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
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