dogturd

English edit

Etymology edit

From dog +‎ turd.

Noun edit

dogturd (plural dogturds)

A piece of solid dog feces.
- 1994, Joseph O’Connor, “The Road to God knows where: An Irish World Cup Diary”, in The Secret World of the Irish Male, Dublin: New Island Books, →ISBN, page 232:
  He stares at the half-inch thick wad of banknotes as though I’ve just handed him a fresh dogturd.
- 2001, Peter Jinks, Hallam Foe, London: Review, Headline Book Publishing, published 2002, →ISBN, page 21:
  He stepped carefully round a dogturd on the pavement.
- 2004, Lucia Perillo, “To My Big Nose”, in Leelila Strogov, editor, Swink, number 1, Swink, Inc., →ISBN, page 71:
  Then you’re out on the sidewalk of Montparnasse with its fumes of tulips and clotted cream and clotted lungs and cigars and sewers—even fumes from the lobster who walks on a leash. And did his owner march slowly or drag his swimmerets briskly along through the one man’s Parisian dogturd that is the other man’s cutting-edge conceptual art?
- 2010, Jeremy Jones, “Sex and Sexuality”, in An Introduction to Chakrology™ – Chakra Theory, Therapy and Balancing, Witham: The Yoga College, →ISBN, page 110:
  What has sex got to do with chakra therapy? Rather a lot, I would argue. Even in these (allegedly) enlightened times, sex is the “elephant in the living room” from a therapeutic and well-being standpoint. Yet we still pussyfoot around the issue “like Queen Victoria stepping round a dogturd”¹ unless the client actually presents with a sexual problem.
  ¹ This memorable metaphor was created by my brother Peter Jones, concerning the closely related subject of orgone (life-energy).