different between tard vs turd
tard
English
Alternative forms
- 'tard
Etymology
Aphetic form of retard.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
tard (plural tards)
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A person with mental retardation.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A person who acts stupidly.
Usage notes
See the usage notes about retard.
Related terms
Anagrams
- ADRT, Art.D., DART, DTRA, Dart, dart, drat, trad
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan tard, from Latin tard?.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?ta?t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?tart/
Adverb
tard
- late
Related terms
Further reading
- “tard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Old French tard, tart, from Latin tarde
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?/
- (France) IPA(key): /ta?/
- (Quebec, formal) IPA(key): [t???]
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): [t?????]
- Rhymes: -a?
Adverb
tard
- late
- Antonym: tôt
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “tard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Alternative forms
- trad (Jersey)
Etymology
From Old French tard, tart, from Latin tarde.
Adverb
tard
- (Guernsey) late
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan tard, from Latin tarde.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tart]
Adverb
tard
- late
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turd
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)
- (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.
- 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:
- (informal, derogatory) A worthless person or thing.
Derived terms
- turdish
- turdlicker
- turdpile
- turdy
Translations
Anagrams
- RTU'd, durt
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