turd

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /tɜːd/ (General American) enPR: tûrd, IPA(key): /tɝd/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /tʌɹd/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /tøːd/ (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /teːd/ (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /tɛːd/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d === Noun === turd (plural turds) (informal, mildly vulgar) A piece of solid feces. 1658, John Mennes; James Smith, “A Poeticall Poem, by Mr. Stephen Locket to Mistrisse Bess Sarney”, in Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, OCLC 230583538, page 203: Thy teeth more comely than two dirty rakes are, / Thy breath is stronger than a douzen jakes are. / A fart for all perfumes, a turd for roses / Smell men but thee, they wish them selves all noses. (informal, mildly vulgar, humorous) A worthless person or thing. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === turd (third-person singular simple present turds, present participle turding, simple past and past participle turded) (rare, slang, vulgar, transitive) To defecate. 1926, Hart Crane, letter, 7 May: You ought to see that owlet […] . We brought it to table and it turded in F's salad, it sits on your finger and squeaks like Peggy does when she gets tipsy. === Anagrams === RTU'd, durt