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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

merd en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /mɜː(ɹ)d/
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Etymology

Borrowed from French merde and Latin merda. Doublet of mierda and merde.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, vulgar) Ordure; dung, shit, excrement.
    • discuss the original of a merd. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

Deriveds

bemerd