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turd

UK/tɜːd/US/tɝd/

turd noun: a piece of solid feces.

Noun

turd (plural turds)

  1. (informal, mildly, vulgar) A piece of solid feces.
    • 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.1658, John Mennes; James Smith, “A Poeticall Poem, by Mr. Stephen Locket to Mistrisse Bess Sarney”, in Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...
  2. (humorous, informal, mildly, vulgar) A worthless person or thing.
    • Last year, he arrested some crankhead turd, brings him down to the station. The guy's cuffed and Fred sets him down on the bench in the booking room. Now you know Fred, right? Not an abusive guy. Never even talks smack to suspects. Well, this turd, he starts kicking and shouting, […]2008, James Patrick Hunt, Goodbye Sister Disco, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN
    • "Don't be a turd," Freddi says. "Don't be a Tones Turd." / "If telling the truth makes a man a turd, then a turd I shall be." / "Yeah," Freddi says. "You'll go down in history. Tones the Truth-Telling Turd. Kids will learn about you in school."2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 56

Verb

turd (third-person singular simple present turds, present participle turding, simple past and past participle turded)

  1. (rare, slang, transitive, vulgar) To defecate.
    • You ought to see that owlet […] . We brought it to table and it turded in F's salad, it sits on your finger and squeaks like Peggy does when she gets tipsy.1926, Hart Crane, letter, 7 May
    • [P]iano dropped chords like a Wolfean horse turding in the steamy Brooklyn winter mornc. 1952, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody

turd meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

turd in Hindi

piece of solid feces
लींड līṇḍ, लेंडी leṇḍī

turd in Marathi

टर्ड

turd in Urdu

گوبر کا ڈلا

turd in Telugu

టర్డ్
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turd in Malayalam
ടർഡ്
turd in Kannada
ಟರ್ಡ್
turd in Gujarati
ટર્ડ
turd in Odia
ଟର୍ଡ୍
turd in Nepali
टर्ड, टुर्ड
turd in Arabic
غَائِط ḡāʔiṭ, بِرَاز birāz, خِرَاء ḵirāʔ, خَرَاء ḵarāʔ
turd in Thai
ขี้ kîi

Examples of turd in a sentence

  • How gladly would I have ſtopt the filthy mouth of that long-tongued fellow with a turd!1671, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Sermon, or Merdardus”, in H. M., transl., Colloquies, London: H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, page 462:
  • […] just as Snitter felt himself exhausted and unable to do more, Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus […]1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs:
  • Hell, as bird number 697 they could have looked like old turds and I still would have got excited.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 292:
  • The sausage on my plate could have been a turd, it tasted like a turd, it smelled like a turd, it had the texture of a turd.2012, Sue Townsend, The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN:

Forms of turd

Noun
pluralturds
Verb
third-person singular presentturds
present participleturding
past participleturded
pastturded

Origin of turd

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.

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Phrases with turd

Words that rhyme with turd

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Questions about turd

What does turd mean?
Turd means a piece of solid feces.
What is turd in Hindi?
Turd in Hindi is लींड (līṇḍ), लेंडी (leṇḍī). See Turd meaning in Hindi.
How do you use turd in a sentence?
How gladly would I have ſtopt the filthy mouth of that long-tongued fellow with a turd!
What part of speech is turd?
Turd can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce turd?
Turd is pronounced /tɜːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of turd?
The plural of turd is turds.

Words near turd in the dictionary

  1. Turcot syndrome
  2. Turcott
  3. Turcotte
  4. Turcotts
  5. Turcu
  6. turd
  7. turd blossom
  8. turd blossoms
  9. turd burglar
  10. turd burglars
  11. turd cutter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: turd (page history and authors); turd (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); turd (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); turd (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); turd (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); turd (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); turd (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); turd (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); turd (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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