noun · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation:/tɜːd/
Australia:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
General-American:tûrd
General-American:/tɝd/
Scotland:/tʌɹd/
New-Zealand:/tøːd/
/teːd/Liverpool, fair–fur merger
/tɛːd/Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)d
1
noun
Meaning 1
A piece of solid feces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, mildly, vulgar
Examples
Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A worthless person or thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, informal, mildly, vulgar
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
verb
Meaning 3
To defecate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, slang, transitive, vulgar
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
obscene terms for feces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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.
Across languages
Translations
86 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
غَائِط
(ḡāʔiṭ)
— piece of solid feces
Arabic:
بِرَاز
(birāz)
— piece of solid feces
Arabic:
خِرَاء
(ḵirāʔ)
— piece of solid feces
Arabic:
خَرَاء
(ḵarāʔ)
— piece of solid feces
Bulgarian:
лайно
(lajno)
— piece of solid feces
Catalan:
cagarro
— piece of solid feces
Chinese Mandarin:
糞 /粪
(fèn)
— piece of solid feces
Chinese Mandarin:
大便
(dàbiàn)
— piece of solid feces
Czech:
hovno
— piece of solid feces
Danish:
lort
— piece of solid feces
Dutch:
drol
— piece of solid feces
Esperanto:
ekskremento
— piece of solid feces
Estonian:
junn
— piece of solid feces
Estonian:
sitajunn
— piece of solid feces
Finnish:
pökäle
— piece of solid feces
Finnish:
kikale
— piece of solid feces
Finnish:
kikkare
— piece of solid feces
Finnish:
torttu
— piece of solid feces
French:
étron
— piece of solid feces
French:
crotte
— piece of solid feces
Galician:
cagallón
— piece of solid feces
Galician:
zurullo
— piece of solid feces
Georgian:
ნეხვი
(nexvi)
— piece of solid feces
German:
Kackwurst
— piece of solid feces
German:
Haufen
— piece of solid feces
German:
Hundehaufen
— piece of solid feces
German:
Pferdeapfel
— piece of solid feces
Greek:
κουράδα
(kouráda)
— piece of solid feces
Greek:
σκατό
(skató)
— piece of solid feces
Ancient Greek:
σπυράς
(spurás)
— piece of solid feces
Hebrew:
חרא
(khara)
— piece of solid feces
Hindi:
लींड
(līṇḍ)
— piece of solid feces
Hindi:
लेंडी
(leṇḍī)
— piece of solid feces
Hungarian:
ganéj
— piece of solid feces
Hungarian:
szar
— piece of solid feces
Icelandic:
kúkur
— piece of solid feces
Icelandic:
sparð
— piece of solid feces
Icelandic:
lortur
— piece of solid feces
Italian:
stronzo
— piece of solid feces
Japanese:
屎
(kuso)
— piece of solid feces
Japanese:
糞
(kuso)
— piece of solid feces
Japanese:
糞
(fun)
— piece of solid feces
Japanese:
大便
(daiben)
— piece of solid feces
Korean:
똥
(ttong)
— piece of solid feces
Latin:
stercus
— piece of solid feces
Macedonian:
го́мно
(gómno)
— piece of solid feces
Macedonian:
ла́јно
(lájno)
— piece of solid feces
Māori:
roke
— piece of solid feces
Māori:
paratūtae
— piece of solid feces
Māori:
parakaeto
— piece of solid feces
Middle English:
tord
— piece of solid feces
Navajo:
chąąʼ
— piece of solid feces
Norwegian Bokmål:
bæsj
— piece of solid feces
Old English:
tord
— piece of solid feces
Polish:
gówno
— piece of solid feces
Polish:
bobek
— piece of solid feces
Portuguese:
tolete
— piece of solid feces
Portuguese:
cagalhão
— piece of solid feces
Portuguese:
troço
— piece of solid feces
Romanian:
scârnă
— piece of solid feces
Romanian:
rahat
— piece of solid feces
Romanian:
căcat
— piece of solid feces
Russian:
говно́
(govnó)
— piece of solid feces
Russian:
ка́ка
(káka)
— piece of solid feces
Russian:
кака́шка
(kakáška)
— piece of solid feces