dog turd
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9.9
- noun
- /dɔg tɜrd/
- Offensive
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mierda
- What I remember about Peru is: flying in a plane over the Andes and fainting; stealing a statue of the baby Jesus; and threatening to eat a dog turd.
Examples
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That movie was a complete dog turd; I can't believe I wasted my time watching it.
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- Earl Warren left us a dog turd?
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"Especially for such a gutless piece of dog turd." "Hold him down," Tony said with glee.
Fiction book (1992) -
The presentation was such a dog turd that no one understood the main point.
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Honestly, his excuses for being late were just a big dog turd to cover up his laziness.
Synonyms
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9.9
Something worthless or untrue that people say to you
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9.9
A person or thing that is very bad and has no value used to insult someone
148
7.4
People who are treated as worthless or unimportant
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9.6
A rude word for a person or thing that is very bad and not worth anything
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9.9
A person you strongly dislike and think is bad
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9.9
Something that is very bad and should be ignored
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4.7
Something thought to be worthless or of very low quality
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9.9
Rude word for a thing or action that is very bad and useless
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8.0
A person who behaves badly or cheats others
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9.9
A thing that is of very poor quality and not worth the money
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9.9
Someone or something people treat as worthless and easily defeated
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9.9
A very dirty, messy pile of trash and broken things
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
A person who is very rude and treats others badly
Antonyms
How Insulting
Surface Forms
Morphology
The insult's meaning is directly built from its parts: 'turd' already denotes a worthless or disgusting thing/person and 'dog' merely specifies/strengthens that image (a dog's excrement), so the overall derogatory sense is predictable. The compositional pattern (animal + excrement insult) is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended vulgar meaning.
Etymology
The informal insult dog turd comes from comparing someone or something to a small pile of a dog's turd on the ground; because that image feels dirty and useless, people use it as a rude way to say something is 'worthless'.