turd

Meaning

Noun

1. (informal, mildly, vulgar) A piece of solid feces.
2. (humorous, informal, mildly, vulgar) A worthless person or thing.

Verb

To defecate.

Synonyms

shit

💩

dirt

crap

shite

excrement

poop

💩

ordure

stool

feces

dung

faeces

frog

🐸

fucker

gink

gook

grifter

heck

jerk

lowlife

low life

raff

riffraff

rip

rotter

scat

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmuck

schnook

scum

scut

slicker

slime

so and so

son of a bitch

son of a gun

stinker

thug

fecal matter

ratfink

scumbag

smooth operator

schmoe

mother fucker

scum bag

slimebag

douchebag

sonofobitch

crumb bum

Translations

étron

stronzo

drol

bok

💩

tolete

kaka

💩

cacca

κουράδα

merda

💩

cagarro

caca

crotte

merda

merde

παλιάνθρωπος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɜːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: toord

Inherited from Old English: tord

Cognate with Old English: tyrdel

Cognate with Old High German: zort

Cognate with Old Norse: torð-

Cognate with Middle Dutch: tord

In summary

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.