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turd


Meanings
  • noun

    A solid piece of feces or excrement.

    - "After a heavy meal, he had to make several trips to the bathroom to pass large turds."
    - "The turd in the toilet bowl was so large that it overflowed and made a mess."

Pronunciation




  1. Source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75858972"

Rhymes
Words rhyming with turd
bird , nurd , heard , herd , urd
Variants
List of all variants of turd that leads to same result
turd , turds
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

From Old English 'tyrde' or Middle English 'turd', originally meaning 'a lump or mass'.


Trivia
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  1. The average human produces about 182 pounds (83 kilograms) of feces in a lifetime.

  2. The world record for the largest turd was produced by a man named Mas Aya, who passed a 33-pound (15-kilogram) turd in 1998.

  3. The term 'turd' has been used as a derogatory term to describe someone or something considered worthless or contemptible.


How to Memorize "turd"

  1. visualize

    - Visualize a large brown mass in a toilet bowl.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word with the act of defecation or the resulting waste product.

  3. mnemonics

    - Use the mnemonic 'Turd: To Understand Reasons for Defecation'.


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