different between third vs turd

English

Etymology

From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr?tyós.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: thûd, IPA^(key): /???d/
• (US) enPR: thûrd, IPA^(key): /??d/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /t???d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Adjective

third (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

Synonyms

• 3rd, 3d, IIIrd, III

Derived terms

• thirdness
• third-wave coffee
• third-wave feminism

Translations

Noun

third (countable and uncountable, plural thirds)

1. The person or thing in the third position.

2. One of three equal parts of a whole.

3. (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.

4. (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

5. (baseball) third base

6. (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
7. A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
8. (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.

Synonyms

• (gear): third gear
• (fractions): ?

Translations

Verb

third (third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded)

1. (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
2. To divide into three equal parts.

Translations

Related terms

See also

• interval

Anagrams

• drith, thrid

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