grime

Noun

the state of being covered with unclean things
Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.

Verb

Verb Forms: grimed, griming, grimes

To make something dirty or covered with soot.
make soiled, filthy, or dirty
To begrime; to cake with dirt.

Examples

He accidentally grimed his new Scrabble board with coffee.
Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized note of Old English grīma (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”).
Possibly influenced by dialectal Dutch grijmsel, Middle Dutch grime, Middle Low German greme (“dirt”), compare Danish grime (“a halter”), Danish grimet (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (“soiled, stripy”).

Synonyms

begrime, bemire, colly, dirt, dirty, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain

Antonyms

clean

Scrabble Score: 8

grime: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
grime: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grime: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

grime: valid Words With Friends Word