turd

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tû(r)d, IPA: /tɜː(r)d/, SAMPA: /t3:(r)d/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)d

Noun

turd (plural turds)

1. (vulgar) A piece of solid animal or human feces.

   I went to the toilet to drop a turd.

2. A pejorative term, typically directed at a person.

Usage notes

Whether it should be considered an especially vulgar insult is subject to judgment, but certainly it would have a broader acceptability than many vulgarities in common use today.

Translations

a piece of excrement

Arabic: غائط (ar) (ghā'iT) m., براز (ar) (birāz) m., خراء (ar) (khirāʼ) m. Bosnian: govno (bs) n. Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 糞, simpl. 粪 (pinyin: fèn), trad. and simpl. 大便 (pinyin: dàbiàn) Croatian: govno (hr) n. Czech: hovno (cs) n. Dutch: drol (nl) m. Esperanto: ekskremento (eo) Estonian: junn, sitajunn Finnish: pökäle, kikale, kikkare French: étron (fr) m. German: Scheißbolle (de) f., Haufen (de) m. Hebrew: חרא Icelandic: kúkur (is) m., sparð (is) n., tyrðill (is) m.

Italian: stronzo (it) m. Japanese: 糞 (ja), くそ (ja) (kuso) Latin: stercus (la) m. Navajo: chąąʼ Norwegian: bæsj (no) m. Polish: gówno (pl) n. Portuguese: tolete (pt), cagalhão (pt) m. Russian: говно (ru) (govnó) n., кака (ru) (káka) f., какашка (ru) (kakáška) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: говно n. Roman: govno n. Spanish: mojón (es) m., zurullo (es) m., bojote (es) m. (Honduras), cerote (es) m. (Nicaragua) Swedish: bajskorv (sv) c. Thai: ขี้ (kêe)