different between manure vs turd

English

Etymology

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin man? (“by hand”) + oper?r? (“to work”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??nj??/, /m??nj??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??n(j)??/
• Hyphenation: ma?nure
• Hyphenation: ma?nu?re
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)

1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
   • 1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward

     Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.

2. To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

Derived terms

• manurable

Translations

See also

• to fertilize

Noun

manure (countable and uncountable, plural manures)

1. Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
2. Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
   • a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint):

     Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.

3. (euphemistic) Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
   • 2005, Ginny Aiken, Design on a Crime (page 217)

     “You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
     “What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”

Derived terms

• humanure

Translations

See also

• fertilizer
• muck

English

Etymology

From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord (“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *turd? (“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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??d/
• (General American) enPR: tûrd, IPA^(key): /t?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

turd (plural turds)

1. (informal, mildly vulgar) A piece of solid animal or human feces.
   • 1658, John Mennes; James Smith, “A Poeticall Poem, by Mr. Stephen Locket to Mistrisse Bess Sarney”, in Wit Restor'd in Severall Select Poems Not Formerly Publish't, London: Printed for R. Pollard, N. Brooks, and T[homas] Dring, and are to be sold at the Old Exchange, and in Fleetstreet, OCLC 82393304; republished in Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation. Conteining Severall Pieces of Poetique Wit by Sr. J[ohn] M[ennes] and Ja[mes] S[mith] 1656. And Wit Restor'd, in Severall Select Poems, not Formerly Publish't. 1658. Also Wits Recreations, Selected from the Finest Fancies of Moderne Muses. With a Thousand Out-landish Proverbs. Printed from Edition 1640, with All the Wood Engravings, and Improvements of Subsequent Editions. To which are now added memoirs of Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. With a Preface. In two volumes, London: Printed by T. Davison, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, OCLC 230583538, page 203:

     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.
2. (informal, derogatory) A worthless person or thing.

Derived terms

• turdish
• turdlicker
• turdpile
• turdy

Translations

Anagrams

• RTU'd, durt