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Noun [English]

IPA: /tɜːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /tɝd/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-turd.ogg [Australia] Forms: turds [plural]
enPR: tûrd Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|toord}} Middle English toord, {{m|enm|tord}} tord, {{inh|en|ang|tord|t=piece of dung, excrement, filth}} Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*tord}} Proto-West Germanic *tord, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*turdą|t=manure, mud}} Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*der-|t=to split, flay}} Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”), {{cog|ang|tyrdel||dropping, small piece of excrement}} Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), {{cog|goh|zort||dung, excrement}} Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), {{cog|non|torð-||dung-|pos=in compounds}} Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), {{cog|dum|tord||lump of excrement}} Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”), {{l|en|tear}} tear, {{l|en|treddle}} treddle Head templates: {{en-noun}} turd (plural turds)
  1. (informal, mildly vulgar) A piece of solid animal or human feces. Tags: informal, mildly, vulgar Categories (topical): Feces Translations (piece of solid feces): σπυράς (spurás) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), غَائِط (ḡāʔiṭ) [masculine] (Arabic), بِرَاز (birāz) [masculine] (Arabic), خِرَاء (ḵirāʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), خَرَاء (ḵarāʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), лайно (lajno) [neuter] (Bulgarian), cagarro [masculine] (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (fèn) (Chinese Mandarin), 大便 (dàbiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), hovno [neuter] (Czech), drol [masculine] (Dutch), ekskremento (Esperanto), junn (Estonian), sitajunn (Estonian), pökäle (Finnish), kikale (Finnish), kikkare (Finnish), torttu (Finnish), étron [masculine] (French), crotte [feminine] (French), cagallón [masculine] (Galician), zurullo [masculine] (Galician), ნეხვი (nexvi) (Georgian), Kackwurst [feminine] (German), Haufen [masculine] (German), Hundehaufen (english: dog) [masculine] (German), Pferdeapfel (english: horse) [masculine] (German), κουράδα (kouráda) [feminine] (Greek), σκατό (skató) [neuter] (Greek), חרא (khara) (Hebrew), लींड (līṇḍ) (Hindi), लेंडी (leṇḍī) (Hindi), ganéj (Hungarian), szar (Hungarian), kúkur [masculine] (Icelandic), sparð (english: small piece) [neuter] (Icelandic), lortur (english: bigger piece) [masculine] (Icelandic), stronzo [masculine] (Italian), (kuso) (alt: くそ) (Japanese), (kuso) (alt: くそ) (Japanese), (fun) (alt: ふん) (Japanese), 大便 (daiben) (alt: だいべん) (Japanese), (ttong) (Korean), stercus [masculine] (Latin), го́мно (gómno) [neuter] (Macedonian), ла́јно (lájno) [neuter] (Macedonian), roke (Maori), paratūtae (Maori), parakaeto (Maori), chąąʼ (Navajo), bæsj [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tord [neuter] (Old English), gówno [neuter] (Polish), bobek [masculine] (Polish), tolete [masculine] (Portuguese), cagalhão [masculine] (Portuguese), troço [masculine] (Portuguese), говно́ (govnó) [neuter] (Russian), ка́ка (káka) [feminine] (Russian), кака́шка (kakáška) [feminine] (Russian), катя́х (katjáx) [masculine] (Russian), го́вно [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), góvno [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), mojón [masculine] (Spanish), zurullo [masculine] (Spanish), bojote [Honduras, masculine] (Spanish), cerote [Nicaragua, masculine] (Spanish), boñiga [feminine] (Spanish), truño [masculine] (Spanish), bajskorv [common-gender] (Swedish), ขี้ (kîi) (Thai), stron [masculine] (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-turd-en-noun-wwUNWutZ Disambiguation of Feces: 68 24 7 Disambiguation of 'piece of solid feces': 95 5
  2. (informal, mildly vulgar, derogatory) A worthless person or thing. Tags: derogatory, informal, mildly, vulgar Translations (worthless person or thing): Scheißtyp [masculine, person] (German), Mist (english: thing) [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-turd-en-noun-bsjzfhy~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English swear words Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 52 20 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 85 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 85 5 Disambiguation of English swear words: 5 90 5 Disambiguation of 'worthless person or thing': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb [English]

IPA: /tɜːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /tɝd/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-turd.ogg [Australia] Forms: turds [present, singular, third-person], turding [participle, present], turded [participle, past], turded [past]
enPR: tûrd Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|toord}} Middle English toord, {{m|enm|tord}} tord, {{inh|en|ang|tord|t=piece of dung, excrement, filth}} Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*tord}} Proto-West Germanic *tord, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*turdą|t=manure, mud}} Proto-Germanic *turdą (“manure, mud”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*der-|t=to split, flay}} Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, flay”), {{cog|ang|tyrdel||dropping, small piece of excrement}} Old English tyrdel (“dropping, small piece of excrement”), {{cog|goh|zort||dung, excrement}} Old High German zort (“dung, excrement”), {{cog|non|torð-||dung-|pos=in compounds}} Old Norse torð- (“dung-”, in compounds), {{cog|dum|tord||lump of excrement}} Middle Dutch tord (“lump of excrement”), {{l|en|tear}} tear, {{l|en|treddle}} treddle Head templates: {{en-verb}} turd (third-person singular simple present turds, present participle turding, simple past and past participle turded)
  1. (rare, slang) To defecate. Tags: rare, slang
    Sense id: en-turd-en-verb-U4VrBKOp

Inflected forms

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        {
          "text": "Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1658, John Mennes; James Smith, “A Poeticall Poem, by Mr. Stephen Locket to Mistrisse Bess Sarney”, in Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, OCLC 230583538, page 203",
          "text": "Thy teeth more comely than two dirty rakes are, / Thy breath is stronger than a douzen jakes are. / A fart for all perfumes, a turd for roses / Smell men but thee, they wish them selves all noses."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1671, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Sermon, or Merdardus”, in H. M., transl., Colloquies, London: H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, page 462",
          "text": "How gladly would I have ſtopt the filthy mouth of that long-tongued fellow with a turd!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1715, John Philips, The Earl of Mar Marr'd. With the Humours of Jockey, The Highlander: A Tragi-comical Farce, 2nd edition, London: E. Curll, →OCLC, act II, scene ii, page 11",
          "text": "[H]e's nea in a Banter by my Saul, gin ye had bean bye when he wreet, ye wold ha ſeen his Face furrow'd lik a dry Cow-Turd, an his Eyn as keen as an Engliſh Bull-Dog, an his Back as high as a Camels, ſo grat was his Wrath, an now he be a Soldier it be tan Times bigger.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1737, Francis Rabelais, “Of the Qualities and Conditions of Panurge”, in John Ozell, transl., The Works of Francis Rabelais …, book II (Gargantua and Pantagruel), London: J. Brindley, C. Corbett, →OCLC, pages 142–143",
          "text": "When he met with any of them upon the Street, he would never fail to put ſome Trick or other upon them; ſometimes putting a fry'd Turd in their graduate Hoods; […] One Day that the Theologians were appointed all to meet in the Sorbonne, he made a Barbonneſa Tart, made of Store of Garlick, Galbanum, Aſſa fœtida, Caſtoreum, Dogs Turds very warm; which he ſteep'd, temper'd, and liquify'd in the corrupt Matter of pocky Biles and peſtiferous Botches; and, very early in the Morning, therewith anointed all the Lattices and Grates of the Sorbonne in ſuch ſort, that the Devil could not have endured it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs",
          "text": "[…] just as Snitter felt himself exhausted and unable to do more, Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 December 11, Ralph Estling, “You're a good man, Charlie Darwin”, in New Scientist, volume 112, number 1538, London: IPC Magazines, →OCLC, page 56",
          "text": "Thus, an insect that has evolved the useful disguise of looking very much like a piece of dung in order to damp the enthusiasm of any non-coprophagous predator is clearly on to a good thing but, as Stephen Jay Gould has wisely observed, what is the adaptive value in looking only 5 per cent like a turd?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 292",
          "text": "Hell, as bird number 697 they could have looked like old turds and I still would have got excited.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sue Townsend, The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year, London: Michael Joseph",
          "text": "The sausage on my plate could have been a turd, it tasted like a turd, it smelled like a turd, it had the texture of a turd. In fact, thinking about it, it probably was a turd.",
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        "(informal, mildly vulgar) A piece of solid animal or human feces."
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
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          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḡāʔiṭ",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
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          "roman": "birāz",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "بِرَاز"
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          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḵirāʔ",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "خِرَاء"
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          "code": "ar",
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          "roman": "ḵarāʔ",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "bg",
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          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "cagarro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "糞"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fèn",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "粪"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dàbiàn",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "大便"
        },
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "hovno"
        },
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "drol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "ekskremento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "junn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "sitajunn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "pökäle"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "kikale"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "kikkare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "torttu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "étron"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "crotte"
        },
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cagallón"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zurullo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "nexvi",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "word": "ნეხვი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Kackwurst"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Haufen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "dog",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "piece of solid feces",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Hundehaufen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "de",
          "english": "horse",
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          "sense": "worthless person or thing",
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        "3": "",
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        "3": "",
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "tear"
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          "text": "Ugh, there are turds in the toilet that haven’t been flushed away.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1658, John Mennes; James Smith, “A Poeticall Poem, by Mr. Stephen Locket to Mistrisse Bess Sarney”, in Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, OCLC 230583538, page 203",
          "text": "Thy teeth more comely than two dirty rakes are, / Thy breath is stronger than a douzen jakes are. / A fart for all perfumes, a turd for roses / Smell men but thee, they wish them selves all noses."
        },
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          "ref": "1671, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Sermon, or Merdardus”, in H. M., transl., Colloquies, London: H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, page 462",
          "text": "How gladly would I have ſtopt the filthy mouth of that long-tongued fellow with a turd!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1715, John Philips, The Earl of Mar Marr'd. With the Humours of Jockey, The Highlander: A Tragi-comical Farce, 2nd edition, London: E. Curll, →OCLC, act II, scene ii, page 11",
          "text": "[H]e's nea in a Banter by my Saul, gin ye had bean bye when he wreet, ye wold ha ſeen his Face furrow'd lik a dry Cow-Turd, an his Eyn as keen as an Engliſh Bull-Dog, an his Back as high as a Camels, ſo grat was his Wrath, an now he be a Soldier it be tan Times bigger.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1737, Francis Rabelais, “Of the Qualities and Conditions of Panurge”, in John Ozell, transl., The Works of Francis Rabelais …, book II (Gargantua and Pantagruel), London: J. Brindley, C. Corbett, →OCLC, pages 142–143",
          "text": "When he met with any of them upon the Street, he would never fail to put ſome Trick or other upon them; ſometimes putting a fry'd Turd in their graduate Hoods; […] One Day that the Theologians were appointed all to meet in the Sorbonne, he made a Barbonneſa Tart, made of Store of Garlick, Galbanum, Aſſa fœtida, Caſtoreum, Dogs Turds very warm; which he ſteep'd, temper'd, and liquify'd in the corrupt Matter of pocky Biles and peſtiferous Botches; and, very early in the Morning, therewith anointed all the Lattices and Grates of the Sorbonne in ſuch ſort, that the Devil could not have endured it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs",
          "text": "[…] just as Snitter felt himself exhausted and unable to do more, Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 December 11, Ralph Estling, “You're a good man, Charlie Darwin”, in New Scientist, volume 112, number 1538, London: IPC Magazines, →OCLC, page 56",
          "text": "Thus, an insect that has evolved the useful disguise of looking very much like a piece of dung in order to damp the enthusiasm of any non-coprophagous predator is clearly on to a good thing but, as Stephen Jay Gould has wisely observed, what is the adaptive value in looking only 5 per cent like a turd?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 292",
          "text": "Hell, as bird number 697 they could have looked like old turds and I still would have got excited.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Sue Townsend, The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year, London: Michael Joseph",
          "text": "The sausage on my plate could have been a turd, it tasted like a turd, it smelled like a turd, it had the texture of a turd. In fact, thinking about it, it probably was a turd.",
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        "mildly",
        "vulgar"
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        "English vulgarities"
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          "ref": "2008, James Patrick Hunt, Goodbye Sister Disco, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Minotaur",
          "text": "Last year, he arrested some crankhead turd, brings him down to the station. The guy's cuffed and Fred sets him down on the bench in the booking room. Now you know Fred, right? Not an abusive guy. Never even talks smack to suspects. Well, this turd, he starts kicking and shouting, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, page 56",
          "text": "\"Don't be a turd,\" Freddi says. \"Don't be a Tones Turd.\" / \"If telling the truth makes a man a turd, then a turd I shall be.\" / \"Yeah,\" Freddi says. \"You'll go down in history. Tones the Truth-Telling Turd. Kids will learn about you in school.\"",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡāʔiṭ",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "غَائِط"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "birāz",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "خِرَاء"
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cagarro"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "糞"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fèn",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "粪"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàbiàn",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "大便"
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "ekskremento"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "junn"
    },
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      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "sitajunn"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "pökäle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "kikale"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "kikkare"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "torttu"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "étron"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "crotte"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cagallón"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zurullo"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "nexvi",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "ნეხვი"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kackwurst"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Haufen"
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      "code": "de",
      "english": "dog",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "Hundehaufen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "horse",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "kouráda",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "skató",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "grc",
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      "roman": "spurás",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "he",
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      "roman": "khara",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "חרא"
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    {
      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "līṇḍ",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "लींड"
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    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "leṇḍī",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "लेंडी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "ganéj"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "szar"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kúkur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "small piece",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sparð"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "bigger piece",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lortur"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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    {
      "alt": "くそ",
      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "kuso",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "屎"
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    {
      "alt": "くそ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kuso",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "糞"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ふん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fun",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "糞"
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    {
      "alt": "だいべん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "daiben",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "大便"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ttong",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "똥"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "stercus"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gómno",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "го́мно"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "lájno",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ла́јно"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "roke"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "paratūtae"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "parakaeto"
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    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "chąąʼ"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
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      "word": "bæsj"
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    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "tord"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "troço"
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      "roman": "govnó",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "го́вно"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "góvno"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "cerote"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "boñiga"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "truño"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bajskorv"
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    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kîi",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "word": "ขี้"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "piece of solid feces",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stron"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "worthless person or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "Scheißtyp"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "thing",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "worthless person or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mist"
    }
  ],
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}

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    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
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    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
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      "name": "inh"
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      "name": "der"
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        "2": "tyrdel",
        "3": "",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "torð-",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "tear",
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "treddle"
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    {
      "form": "turds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "turded",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1926, Hart Crane, letter, 7 May",
          "text": "You ought to see that owlet […] . We brought it to table and it turded in F's salad, it sits on your finger and squeaks like Peggy does when she gets tipsy."
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1952, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody",
          "text": "[P]iano dropped chords like a Wolfean horse turding in the steamy Brooklyn winter morn",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defecate."
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          "defecate"
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        "(rare, slang) To defecate."
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        "slang"
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      "ipa": "/tɜːd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tɝd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)d"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-au-turd.ogg/En-au-turd.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-au-turd.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "enpr": "tûrd"
    }
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}

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