Turd
wiktionary
From Middle English toord, tord, from Old English tord(“piece of dung, excrement, filth”), from Proto-Germanic *turdą(“ manure, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *der-(“to split, flay”). Cognate with Old English tyrdel(“ dropping, small piece of excrement”), Old High German zort(“dung, excrement”), Old Norse torð-(“dung-”, in compounds), Middle Dutch tord(“ lump of excrement”). More at tear, treddle.
etymonline
turd (n.)
Old English tord "piece of excrement," from Proto-Germanic *turdam (source also of Middle Dutch torde "piece of excrement," Old Norse tord-yfill, Dutch tort-wevel "dung beetle"), from PIE *drtom, past participle of root *der- "to split, flay, peel;" thus "that which is separated ("torn off") from the body" (compare shit (v.) from root meaning "to split;" Greek skatos from root meaning "to cut off; see scatology). As a type of something worthless and vile, it is attested from mid-13c. Meaning "despicable person" is recorded from mid-15c.
A tord ne yeue ic for eu alle ["The Owl and the Nightingale," c. 1250]
Alle thingis ... I deme as toordis, that I wynne Crist. [Wyclif, Philippians iii.8, 1382; KJV has "I count all things ... but dung, that I may win Christ"]
