merde

See also: merdé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French merde (“shit”). Doublet of mierda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛːd/

Noun

merde (uncountable)

1. (quaint) shit

Anagrams

• Meder, mered

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Alemannic German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian merda (“shit, crap”).

Interjection

merde

1. (Uri, vulgar) shit!, crap!

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 17.

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French

Alternative forms

• marde (Canada)

Etymology

From Middle French merde (“shit”), from Old French merde (“shit”), from Latin merda(m) (“shit”), from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁd/

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Interjection

merde

1. (vulgar) shit!, crap!

   Merde ! J’ai oublié mes clés !

   Shit! I forgot my keys!

2. (theater) break a leg!

Noun

merde f (plural merdes)

1. (vulgar) turd, piece of feces, shit

   J’ai marché dans une merde de chien.

   I stepped in dog shit.

2. shit (something undesirable or unwanted)

   J’en ai marre de ce petit morveux de merde !

   I've had it with this little fucking brat!

3. shit (something of poor quality)

   Aïe, cette télé de merde !

   Ugh, this piece-of-shit TV!

4. (derogatory) a dickhead, a fuckhead, a bastard

Derived terms

• putain de merde
• putain de bordel de merde

Related terms

• emmerder
• merder
• merdeux

Descendants

• → English: merde

See also

• chier
• déféquer

Further reading

• “merde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

merde f

1. plural of merda

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French merde.

Noun

merde f (plural merdes)

1. (vulgar) shit (feces)
2. (figuratively) shit (something undesirable)

Descendants

• French: merde, marde (Canada)
  • → English: merde

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Zazaki

Noun

merde

1. death