turd

Meaning

Noun

• A piece of solid animal or human feces.
• A worthless person or thing.

Origin

• From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord ("piece of dung, excrement, filth"), from Proto-Germanic *turdą ("manure, mud"), from Proto-Indo-European *der- ("to split#Verb"). Cognate with Old English tyrdel ("[[dropping, small piece of excrement"), Old High German zort ("dung, excrement"), Old Norse torð- ("dung-"), Middle Dutch tord ("lump of excrement"). More at tear, treddle.