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turd

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4 lettersPronunciation /tɜːd/Part of speech nounSorted drtuStarts with TEnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. obscene terms for feces

Word origin

From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tord, from Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.

Used in a sentence

  • Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away.
  • Thy teeth more comely than two dirty rakes are, / Thy breath is stronger than a douzen jakes are. / A fart for all perfumes, a turd for roses / Smell men but thee, they wish them selves all noses.
  • How gladly would I have ſtopt the filthy mouth of that long-tongued fellow with a turd!

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