Messy or dirty
How do you say when kids hands or foot are dirty.. If covered with food, mud, dust. Do we say your hands are dirty ?

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In this case, we say "dirty" because there is dirt on their hands.
If we say messy, it means "not the way it should be " = clean. 
In the every day life, we just say dirty.

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Dirt is filth, bad stuff which we hate: mud, dust, soil, poo, goo from behind the refrigerator, it is usually full of bacteria.

Mess is stuff which is in the wrong place: when I wake up in the morning, my hair is messy (but never dirty!).

Children's hands can be dirty after they have been playing outside, or messy after mealtimes.

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