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turd.

A piece of solid feces.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/tɜːd/Australia, Received-Pronunciation/tɝd/General-American/tʌɹd/Scotland/tøːd/New-Zealand

  1. A piece of solid feces.

    informal · mildly · vulgar
    Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away.

  2. A worthless person or thing.

    humorous · informal · mildly · vulgar
Where this word comes from

From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.

verb/tɜːd/Australia, Received-Pronunciation/tɝd/General-American/tʌɹd/Scotland/tøːd/New-Zealand

  1. To defecate.

    rare · slang · transitive · vulgar
Where this word comes from

From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.

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