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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Vulgar A piece of excrement.
  2. n. Slang Vulgar A contemptible person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A ball or lump of excrement; dung.

Wiktionary

  1. n. vulgar A piece of solid animal or human feces.
  2. n. A pejorative term, typically directed at a person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. obscene terms for feces

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord ("piece of excrement, dung, filth "), from Proto-Germanic *turdan (“mud, manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tord ("lump of excrement"), Old High German zort ("dung, excrement"), Old Norse torð- ("dung-", in compounds), Old English tyrdel ("dropping, small piece of excrement"). More at tear, treddle. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English tord. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • michaelt42 Leading seaman's insult to new National Serviceman: You're going around like a turd in a trance (Royal Navy, ca. 1955). Apr 3, 2012

  • tbtabby Means "fragile" in Persian. Jul 13, 2009

  • yarb I shouldn't have left my husband
          if the other man hadn't occurred -
    told me he loved me more than his wife,
          the turd.

    - Peter Reading, Song of the Bedsit Girl, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981 Jun 29, 2008

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