turd

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The tin hat on the turd has been the update element that tries to paper over the cracks - ie, the element that makes the signal look better.

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  • Ford: run by Bill Ford the turd, almost into the ground the past after he took control has never rebounded it's sales diminishing to a pinpoint. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • I don't think wingnuts should be anywhere allowed blog. squatting at Patterico's pad, plops out this wet, stinky turd-like nugget of what passes for insight deep in the bowels of Outer Wingnuttia, regarding Joe the recent, um, statement on the SCLM and its uber-treasonous war coverage: —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Today is probably your last chance to ditch this turd, and squeeze the —  FinanceVisor - Today's News Stories
  • And, If you're going to be a turd - go lay in the yard!
  • Don't go thinking it's just standing around idly like a bump on a turd, as hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese see their livelihoods go up in smoke faster than a Chinese Internet cafe. —  Taipei Times
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English tord; see der- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English tord, toord, from Anglo-Saxon tord =Middle Dutch tord, a lump of excrement. Hence diminutive treddle, from ME, tyrdel, from Anglo-Saxon tyrdel, diminutive of tord.
 

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