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Definition: Turd |
TurdNoun1. Obscene terms for feces. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
"Turd" is a common misspelling or typo for: curd, surd, tardy, tired, tort, TRUE, turf, turn. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | French (étron), Italian (stronzo). (references) |
Slang | Verb. Source: A high school Varsity Basketball team in Vancouver Washington. Definition: You say this to or about a person when they are lazy on the court. You are only called this when you are dragging and need to be picked up. Context: This is usually used by the coach when he wants to give you a little incentive to play a little harder. Social Source: Varsity Basketball Players from a high school in Vancouver Washington. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonyms: TurdSynonyms: crap (n), dirt (n), poop (n), shit (n), shite (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Just think of it as Close Encounters of the Turd Kind. (The Mighty; writing credit: Charles Leavitt. Based on the novel 'Freak the Mighty' by Rodman Philbrick.) Shut up, you Jewish turd! (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) We went down about as well as a turd souffle. (Peter's Friends; writing credit: Martin Bergmann and Rita Rudner.) You hold it, turd! (Major Payne; writing credit: Joe Connelly; Bob Mosher) No one sends you a turd and expects to live! (Pink Flamingos; writing credit: John Waters) | |
Lyrics | I'd like to stick a turd in her mailbox (The Death Of Suzzy Roche; performing artist: The Roches) | |
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| "Turd" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.21% of the time. "Turd" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.21% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "turd": dog turd. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "turd": turd-brain, turd-laden. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
turd | 122 | dog turd | 3 |
picture turd | 12 | backseat in turd | 3 |
ferguson turd | 11 | back in seat turd | 3 |
pic turd | 8 | send a turd | 3 |
burglar turd | 8 | burgler turd | 3 |
turd words | 8 | largest turd | 3 |
car in turd | 7 | longest turd | 2 |
girl turd | 6 | big turd | 2 |
cutter turd | 6 | sykes turd wanda | 2 |
rate turd | 5 | biggest turd | 2 |
turd word | 5 | bird turd | 2 |
eater turd | 4 | photo turd | 2 |
turd twister | 4 | moose pie turd | 2 |
fake turd | 3 | monkey turd | 2 |
lonely turd | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "turd"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndyrësirë (crap, poop, rotter, shit), mut (crap, dregs, poop, shit), mëllef (crap, poop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غائط (dejection, dirt, evacuation, excrement, movement, shit), روث (dropping, droppings, dung, manure, muck), شخص غبي, شخص أبله (birdbrained, simple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лайно (shit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | merde, couillon, con. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σβουνιά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'לל (because of, dung, excrement, for the sake of, ordure), צוא" (dung, excrement, faeces, filth, ordure, stool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szar (crappy, dipshit, fucking, half-assed, muck, naff, scuz, scuzz, shit, sleazo, sleazy, sodding, stinky, to be fucked up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コロナ"電 (colon, colonial, colony, Colorado, Colorado Springs, coloratura, Columbia, corona discharge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コロンバン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urdtay câcat (crap, shit). (various references) zurullo, cagada (balls up, crap, poop, shit). (various references) tezek, dışkı (dejection, evacuation, excrement, excreta, excretion, faecal matter, faeces, rejectamenta, rejection, stool), bok herif (shit), bok (bullshit, crap, dung, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, shit). (various references) гівно (shit). (various references) thúi + cứt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turd": turdine, turds. (additional references) | |
Words containing "turd": sturdied, sturdier, sturdies, sturdiest, sturdily, sturdiness, sturdinesses, sturdy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: rut, urd. | |
-2 letters: ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: durst, trued, turds. | |
+2 letters: bruted, datura, detour, drouth, duster, putrid, redout, rotund, routed, rudest, rusted, rutted, stroud, sturdy, toured, truced, trudge, tundra, turbid, turfed, turgid, turned, untrod, updart. | |
+3 letters: auditor, aurated, blurted, bruited, bursted, bustard, courted, crudest, crudity, crusted, curated, custard, daturas, daturic, daunter, denture, detours, detrude, diluter, dilutor, disrupt, disturb, doubter, dourest, draught, dropout, drought, drouths, drouthy, drugget, durmast, dusters, dustier, dustrag, eductor, eructed, erudite, erupted, extrude, fruited, grouted, grunted, hurtled, intrude, lustred, matured, mustard, natured, obtrude, orotund, outbred, outdare, outdoer, outdoor, outdrag, outdraw, outdrew, outdrop, outread, outride, outrode, outward, product, prudent, quadrat, quirted, readout, redoubt, redouts, refuted, reputed, restudy, retuned, rotunda, rousted, rundlet, rustled, spurted, strouds, strudel, studier, sutured, tenured, thunder, torqued, traduce, triduum, trouped, trucked, trudged, trudgen, trudger, trudges, trumped, trundle, trunked, trussed, trusted, tundras, turdine, turtled, tutored, undrest, unitard, unrated, untired, untread, untried, updarts, updater, updraft, uprated, uptrend, uttered. | |
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