merde

Borrowed from French merde (“shit”). Doublet of mierda.

merde (uncountable)

1. (quaint) shit

• Meder, mered

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

merde

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

• “merde” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 17.

• marde (Canada)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁd/

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merde

1. (vulgar) shit!, crap!

   Merde ! J'ai oublié mes clés !

   Shit! I forgot my keys!

2. (theater) break a leg!

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. (derogatory) a dickhead, a fuckhead, a bastard

• putain de merde
• putain de bordel de merde

• emmerder
• merder
• merdeux

• → English: merde

• chier
• déféquer

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

merde f

1. plural of merda

From Old French merde.

merde f (plural merdes)

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

• French: merde, marde
  • → English: merde

merde ?

1. death