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turd

noun · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection

History

Etymology

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
  • Russian: катя́х (katjáx) — piece of solid feces
  • Serbo-Croatian: го́вно — piece of solid feces
  • Serbo-Croatian: góvno — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: mojón — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: zurullo — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: bojote — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: cerote — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: boñigo — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: truño — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: surullo — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: zurrullo — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: sorete — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: sorongo — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: zorete — piece of solid feces
  • Spanish: zorongo — piece of solid feces
  • Swedish: bajskorv — piece of solid feces
  • Thai: ขี้ (kîi) — piece of solid feces
  • Walloon: stron — piece of solid feces
  • German: Scheißtyp — worthless person or thing
  • German: Mist — worthless person or thing
  • Middle English: tord — worthless person or thing