merde

Etymology

Borrowed from French merde (“shit”).

Noun

merde (uncountable)

1. (quaint) shit

Anagrams

• Meder, mered

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian merda (“shit, crap”).

Interjection

merde

1. (Uri, vulgar) shit!, crap!

References

• Abegg, Emil (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 17.

Etymology

From Middle French merde (“shit”), from Old French merde (“shit”), from Latin merda(m) (“shit”), from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁd/

Interjection

merde

1. (vulgar) shit!, crap!

   Merde ! J'ai oublié mes clés !

   Shit! I forgot my keys!

2. (theater) break a leg!

Noun

merde f (plural merdes)

1. (vulgar) turd, piece of feces, shit

   J’ai marché dans une merde de chien.

   I stepped in dog shit.

2. shit (something undesirable or unwanted)

   J'en ai marre de ce petit morveux de merde !

   I've had it with this little fucking brat!

3. shit (something of poor quality)

   Aïe, cette télé de merde !

   Ugh, this piece-of-shit TV!

4. (pejorative) a dickhead, a fuckhead, a bastard

See also

• chier
• déféquer

Further reading

• “merde” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

merde f

1. plural of merda

Etymology

From Old French merde.

Noun

merde f (plural merdes)

1. (vulgar) shit (feces)
2. (figuratively) shit (something undesirable)

Noun

merde ?

1. death