Turd World

English

Etymology

Blend of turd +‎ Third World, in reference to the unsanitary conditions in the Third World.

Proper noun

the Turd World

1. (slang, offensive, humorous) The Third World.
   • 2002 November 9, Joe User, “World's first attempt to keep out illegal aliens.”, in alt.org.audubon‎^[1] (Usenet):

     It has nothing to do with race, has to do with ethnicisity, there is a
     difference. The peoples of the turd world are dismal failures, their
     culture promoted reproducing to the point the environment can not
     sustain them at comfortable levels, the price of that historically has
     been death. It just so happens that the majority of the third world
     is non-white.

   • 2003 January 5, Michael Savage, The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture‎^[2], Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:

     You are part of the social system that they say oppresses and abuses Turd World nations.

   • 2013 December 17, Caren Irr, Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century (Literature Now)‎^[3], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 77:

     In The Volunteer, no drama is provided by the tedium of daily labor or the struggle to wrest a livelihood from a damaged habitat in what is called throughout the novel the “turd world.” The developing world is excrementitious for Coleman's supposedly ironic protagonist because he has experienced an ego-shattering loss that makes him feel that his own life has been wasted.

Alternative forms

• turd world