Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Vulgar A piece of excrement.
- n. Slang Vulgar A contemptible person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ball or lump of excrement; dung.
Wiktionary
- n. vulgar A piece of solid animal or human feces.
- n. A pejorative term, typically directed at a person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. obscene terms for feces
Etymologies
- 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)
- Middle English, from Old English tord. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A turd is still a turd no matter how you describe it but a turd is also illustrative of all that is wholesome about life here and everywhere.”
“I slave away at a sentance or paragraph for an hour polishing a turd till it reaches mirror status, but my lack of confidence (probably fully justified) makes me sure that the turd is and will always be a turd.”
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“The kind that think that are convinced that a turd is art if and only if the one selling it as art had a degree in arts.”
“Exactly, but the little turd is trying its best to distract from the obvious.”
“Obama/Biden won't but I'll be goddamned if others shouldn't call a turd a turd.”
“The lunch for three with the man President George W. Bush affectionately called turd blossom will take place at a steak house in W.shington.”
“Engadget (and, every once and a while Gizmodo) are known to call a turd a turd.”
“Someone who might agree with you on 70-80% of what you say should not be referred to as a turd, fucktard, etc ...”
“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.”
“Either way, it doesn't matter: You can call a turd a rose, but it still stinks.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘turd’.
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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sewerly words
words that have to do with the sewers and the stuff that goes into them can be as gross as you like but stay on the topic of pipes poop and piles of sludge animals found in there are also welcome
sewage, sewerage, sludge, feces, poop, sewers, gunk, rat, mutant ninja turtles, alligator, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and 10 more...
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Everything Comes Down to Poo
poop, poo, feces, excrement, shit, crap, dung, droppings, guano, manure, waste, stool and 6 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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fearraigh's Words
heretofore, seldom, cunt, calamity, overhead, phalanx, flunky, factotum, terrestrial, dormant, afflatus, periphery and 156 more...
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Mib's Words
east overshoe, east bumfuck, turd, umpteenth, ammies, shithead, fatty, for pete's sake, crud, rigamarole, creep, bedlington and 33 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
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oh dear
terms of endearment - this list is rated X.
( personal list, randomness )
also see:
sweetie pants, big mamma biscuit, sugar pants, cheese tits, honey poo, pussy lips, snuggly poo, sweetpea, sugar tits, fuck puppet, sex slave, sleepy head and 44 more... -
Like
macabre, derelict, succulent, phlebolith, cryptic, nebulous, germane, droll, amorphous, mundane, arcuate, arcane and 23 more...
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False Friends
"False Friend" is a linguistic term for words that appear in more than one language, but with entirely different meanings. They can cause a lot of problems for the unwary tourist.
kill, fatal, lawman, sky, city, slut, alone, bless, fart, bog, arse, turd and 39 more...
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the dog's bark
woof...
grammaticaster, bunfight, lucubratory, tittuppy, smithereens, debonair, limpet, rivulet, palaver, turd, galligaskins, pluvious and 5 more...
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Chase's Words
turd, pie, big cheese, blow chunks, hurl, doohicky, diarrhea, no, scat, spleen, toe jam
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Unpleasant Words For Unpleasant Things
smegma, vomit, pus, purulent, abscess, carbuncle, fester, faeces, pustule, turd, regurgitation, dyspraxia and 22 more...
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zander's Words
persiflage, skunk, gravel, pusillanimous, glum, swafern, flapjack, coinage, onyx, floozie, poeminous, bucolic and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for turd.
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