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turd Not now in polite use.|tɜːd|
Forms: 1, 3–6 tord, (3 tort), 4–6 toord, 6 toorde, 5–6 torde, 5–7 turde, 6 tourd, -e, towrde, Sc. tuird, 5– turd.
[OE. tord, = MDu., MFl. torde, tort, (whence also early mod.Du. tort-wevel (Kilian), OE. tord-wifel, ON. tord-ýfill, OSw. tord-öfvil, Sw. tordyfvel, Norw. tordivel, -yvel, dung-beetle, sharn-bug), prob.:—IndoEur. *drtó-, pa. pple. of *der- to tear, split. See Falk and Torp Etymol. Wbch. s.v. Torbist. Cf. also tirdle, trottle, trattle, treddle.]
1. a. A lump or piece of excrement; also, excrement, ordure.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 62 Swines tord. Ibid. 322 Culfran tord. Ibid. 330 Niwe horses tord. a1250,[see b]. 1382Wyclif Zeph. i. 17 The blood of hem shal be shed out as erthe, and the bodyes of hem as tordis. 1388― Isa. v. 25 The deed bodies of hem weren maad as a toord [1382 drit] in the myddis of stretis. c1400Lanfranc's Cyrurg. 194 Sprynge þeron poudre maad of tapsia,..& tordis of a culuere. 1483Cath. Angl. 189/2 An Horse turde, donarium. 1553Bale Vocacyon 45 Yet will a toorde be but a stinkinge toorde, both in smele and syght, pepper him and bawme him..as wele as they can. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 91 No marvel that he [Luther] is so taxed for his stincking repetition of turds and dunghils. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. ix. (1734) 232 Turd and all manner of filth. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 63 Thatch your house with t―d, and you'll have more teachers than reachers. 1922Joyce Ulysses 649 The horse..added his quota by letting fall on the floor..three smoking globes of turds. 1928in A. W. Read Class. Amer. Graffiti (1935) 81 Now and then a fart is heard Mingling with a dropping turd. 1968Listener 1 Aug. 152/2 His protest at the killing in Vietnam is at least original: he parcels up a rich turd and mails it to the White House. 1981N. Gordimer July's People 35 It was true that it was difficult to get the children to remember to bury the paper along with the turd.
b. As a type of worthlessness or vileness.
a1250Owl & Night. 1686 A tord [v.r. tort] ne yeue ic for eu alle. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 3704 Þou nart nouȝt worþ a tord. 1382Wyclif Phil. iii. 8 Alle thingis..I deme as toordis, that I wynne Crist. c1450Debate Carpenter's Tools 110 in Hazlitt E.P.P. I. 83 Thou arte not worth a tord. 1619–20Archdeaconry of Essex Minutes lf. 265 (MS.) He did demaunde rent of one who holdeth some land which was given..for the poore of the same parishe, who bid a turde for him and a turde for them.
c. In coarse abuse; also applied to a person as a term of execration or contempt. Cf. shit n. 1 b.
c1450Mankind 127 in Macro Plays 6. a 1518 Skelton Magnyf. 397 Do away, I say, the deuylles torde! 1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 37 The foul-mouthd knave wil call thee goodman Tord. 1614B. Jonson Bart. Fair i. iv, Good Master Hornet, turd i' your teeth, hold you your tongue. 1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xxii. 315 ‘But why not?’ the poor old turd kept asking. 1944D. Welch In Youth is Pleasure viii. 152 Somebody called Woods a dirty old sod, another called him a great turd. 1965Howard & West Making of Prime Minister xiii. 204 A purple-faced steward walked up to a scrawny, pale heckler and yelled, ‘Shut up, you ignorant turd!’ 1978B. Freemantle Clap Hands ix. 66 The man..could make everyone else feel a turd.
2. attrib. and Comb., as turd-monger; also turd-coloured, turd-eating, turd-faced adjs; turd-bird, local name for species of Skua (Stercorarius).
1550Bale Apol. 112 That torde monger, whych dysdaynynge my preciouse preceptes, presenteth me with his vile dirty donge. a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 787 Tuirdfacit, ay chaisit, almaist fyld for ane theif! a1704T. Brown Walk round Lond., Thames Wks. 1709 III. iii. 59 Out you nasty T―d colour'd dog. 18..Atkinson Provinc. Names Birds (MS.), Turd-bird, a provincial name for Richardson's Skua. 1969Turdeating [see cock-sucking ppl. adj. s.v. cock n.1 23]. 1978in R. Quirk Style & Communication in Eng. Lang. (1982) ii. 33 Lofty structures of turd-coloured brick..seemed to be deserted. 1978J. Krantz Scruples x. 295 Those turd-eating Mexican border guards'll put you away.
Hence ˈturdish a., characteristic of a ‘turd’ or contemptible person.
1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xxii. 315 ‘Turds to the core,’ he said. ‘So they can't think anything but turdish thoughts.’ 1966Punch 12 Jan. 64/2 An aristocratic, even Byronic work which finds strident anti⁓communism turdish. |