turd
pronunciation
How to pronounce turd in British English:
UK [tɜ:d]
How to pronounce turd in American English:
US [tɜrd]
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- Noun:
- obscene terms for feces
Word Origin
- turd
- turd: [OE] Turd is an ancient word, traceable right back to Indo-European *drtom. This was formed from the base *dr-, *der- ‘flay, tear’ (source also of English tear), and so etymologically denoted that which is ‘separated’ from the body, like flayed skin, and hence ejected or excreted from the body. It passed into English via prehistoric Germanic *turdam. A distant relative is Latvian dirsti ‘defecate’.=> tear
- turd (n.)
- Old English tord "piece of excrement," from Proto-Germanic *turdam (cognates: Middle Dutch torde "piece of excrement," Old Norse tord-yfill, Dutch tort-wevel "dung beetle"), from PIE *drtom, past participle of root *der- (2) "to split, peel, flay, tear;" thus "that which is separated ("torn off") from the body" (compare shit (v.) from root meaning "to split;" Greek skatos from root meaning "to cut off; see scatology). As a type of something worthless and vile, it is attested from mid-13c. Meaning "despicable person" is recorded from mid-15c. A tord ne yeue ic for eu alle ["The Owl and the Nightingale," c. 1250] Alle thingis ... I deme as toordis, that I wynne Crist. [Wyclif, Phil. iii.8, 1382; KJV has "I count all things ... but dung, that I may win Christ"]
Example
- 1. She dropped me like a turd !
- 2. All because ofthis rat turd murderer , okay ?
- 3. Her panties are filled with a big turd .
- 4. So what if I 'm not the smartest peanut in the turd .
- 5. American law is dog turd !