turd
Plural: turds
Noun
- obscene terms for feces
- A piece of solid feces.
- A worthless person or thing.
Verb
- To defecate.
Examples
- Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 5
turd: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionaryturd: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
turd: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
turd: valid Words With Friends Word