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The word was also very much alive in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the dialect of southwestern England, where it had come to mean any type of filth or litter, according to Elworthy's A West Somerset Word-Book.
Kurtzman's "No Shortage of Filth To Rile Righteous Rudy" points to exhibits at the Whitney and MoMA that are certainly equally if not more offensive than the exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
A third group, not of different ethnic origin from the Japanese mainstream but unquestionably inferior in status, are the burakumin (“village dwellers,” a euphemism for their old caste name — meaning “much filth” — which was officially abolished at the end of the 19th century).
The brutally funny Steve Stern ( Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven , Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground , A Plague of Dreamers ) does this by inventing a shtetl that out-Singers Singer in its weirdness and filth and then putting it in pre-World War II Memphis, Tenn.
I wrote a note to Alexander Chancellor, who was then the editor (and who now writes "International Papers" for Slate ), and asked how Waugh knew that it was a "filthy kosher breakfast," unless it was filth recognizing filth.