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merd, ‖ merde|mɜːd, mɛrd|
Forms: 5–7, 20 merd, 5, 20 merde, 6–7 mard, 7 mird.
[a. F. merde:—L. merda dung. Now usu. treated as unnaturalized (merde).]
a. Dung, excrement; a piece of excrement, a turd. Also as adj.
1477Norton Ordin. Alch. iii. in Ashm. (1652) 39 In Haire, in Eggs, in Merds, and Urine. 1486Bk. St. Albans b viij, For this sekennese take merde of a dove. 1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 82 If after thou of Garlike strong, the sauour wilt expell: A Mard is sure the onely meane, to put away the smell. 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii, Haire o' the head, burnt clouts, chalke, merds, and clay. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. ii. 391 To dispute of gentry without wealth, is..to discusse the originall of a Mard. 1669Cokaine Ovid 63 Oyntments Made of the spawn of Snakes, Spittle of Jews, And Mird of Infants. [a1733North Exam. iii. viii. (1740) 644 He..deals forth his Merda by the Hirelings of the Times.] 1920T. S. Eliot Ara Vos Prec 11 The goat coughs at night in the field overhead; Rocks, moss, stonecrop, iron, merds. a1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 13 Don't you see, in his [sc. a rabbit's] very immobility, how the whole world is merde to him? 1960‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick xv. 111 Lurching from one delightful street-smell to another—merds, garlic, mutton-fat, urine, food-tins. 1962Listener 26 July 141/1 It's still evasion to ignore the new tragedy of what might be called the merde world. 1968J. Updike Couples ii. 167 ‘Janet, you disgust me,’ Harold said. ‘How can you unload this merde on three people who adore you?’ 1970New Yorker 7 Mar. 36 We cannot have that kind of pornographic merde in this majestic and high-minded sentence.
b. As int. coarse slang.
1920E. E. Cummings Let. 14 Oct. (1969) 74, I am not self-sufficient do I hear you say? Merde! 1924D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 Aug. (1932) 606 A great merde! to all latter-day Joan-of-Arcism. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out iii. 25 ‘Merde!’ he used to shout, ‘you here again?’ 1961I. Jefferies It wasn't Me! x. 132 ‘Oh, well, Merde!’ He stuck out his hand and I shook it. ‘Merde to you.’ 1974N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 78 He never lost his temper or said merde. |