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
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(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: