turd
Meaning
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- (informal) A piece of solid animal or human feces.
- (informal) A worthless person or thing.
Synonyms
low life
scum bag
sonofobitch
crumb bum
smacko
crum-bum
ass maggot
sona'bitch'u
ratink
crum
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɜːd/
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.
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