dirty story
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8.1
- noun
- Offensive
- At the reunion, he told a dirty story that brought back fond memories of our youth.
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- And he said this this guy's going to one day tell dirty stories on a podcast.
Examples
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He entertained us with a funny yet provocative dirty story that made everyone laugh.
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The fact you don't get excited over my dirty stories... is because you can't relate to them.
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I like a dirty story.
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Every line tells a dirty story.
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I'll tell you dirty stories, huh?
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And he said this this guy's going to one day tell dirty stories on a podcast.
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What's that, a dirty story?
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You're going to read me a dirty story I'll bet.
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And all his attempts at telling dirty stories were such disastrous failures that he had abandoned the genre.
Fiction book (1992) -
Always tellin' dirty stories to keep the buyers laughin'.
Synonyms
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7.2
A joke that talks about sex or private parts in a rude way
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8.6
A joke about sex or other adult subjects that may offend some people
A rude joke about sex that can offend people
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a story or joke that contains indecent or obscene content' is directly and compositionally derived from 'dirty' (in the sense 'lewd/indecent') + 'story' (a narrative). This adjective+noun pattern is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common way to mark sexual/indecent content, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should infer the meaning.
Etymology
Dirty story comes from calling rude or sexual things dirty, like something covered in dirt, so you can picture a story that is 'not clean'. That's why dirty story means a tale that is 'indecent'.