dirt cheap

Exce ively low in price; presenting an unusual opportunity to secure a bargain. dirt-eating, 8. 1. Med.: A disease of the nutritive functions among negroes ( Cachexia African a ) in which the patient is seized with an irresistible desire to eat dirt. 2. Physiol .: A practice among some of the poorer cla es in some of the Southern States of the Union, and also among the Ottomac and other South American Indian tribes, of eating clay, has gained for them the name dirt-eaters, although the eating does not seem to be the result of any active pathological condition. *dirt-fear, s. A fright or fear which causes one to become livid. "He trembled, and, which was a token Of a dirt - fear , looked dun as docken." Meston: Poems, p. 131. *dirt-fear'd, a. Made pale or livid with fear. dirt-flee, dirt-fly, s. 1. Lit.: The yellow fly that haunts dung-hills, Musca stercoraria . 2. Fig .: The term is sometimes proverbially applied to a young woman who, from pride, has long remained in a single state, and makes a low marriage after having scornfully refused good offers. dirt-house, s. A close stool, a privy.