mierda

Directly from Spanish mierda, from Latin merda. Doublet of merde and merd.

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mierda (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US, neologism, vulgar, in Spanish contexts) shit

• Usually italicized as a foreign word.

• armied, Dimare, raimed, admier, Merida, admire, Mérida, Admire

Inherited from Latin merda. See Spanish mierda, French merde.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjeɾda/
• Syllabification: mier‧da
• Rhymes: -eɾda

mierda f (plural mierdas)

1. (vulgar) shit

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mierda”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• merda

From Latin merda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjeɾda/ [ˈmjeɾ.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -eɾda
• Syllabification: mier‧da

mierda

1. (vulgar) shit (expression of worry, failure)

mierda f (plural mierdes)

1. shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “mierda”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “mierda”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

mierda

1. (vulgar) shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.)

• mrd (censored spelling, Internet slang)

Inherited from Old Spanish mierda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”). Cognate with Italian merda, Portuguese merda, French merde and the obsolete English merd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjeɾda/ [ˈmjeɾ.ð̞a]

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• Rhymes: -eɾda
• Syllabification: mier‧da

mierda f (plural mierdas) (vulgar)

1. (uncountable, literally) shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.)
2. shit

   ¡Vete a la mierda!

   Go to hell!

   (literally, “Go to the shit”)

   ¡Tu hombre [no] vale mierda! ("no" is optional)

   Your man isn't worth shit!

   Odio este pueblucho de mierda

   I hate this shitty little town

3. piece of shit; a bad thing; an object of poor quality.

   Synonym: basura

   Este paraguas es una mierda.

   This umbrella is a piece of shit.

4. drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

• → English: mierda

¡mierda!

1. (Spain, vulgar) shit! fuck! (expression of worry, failure, shock, only for negative situations)

   Synonyms: joder, hostia

   ¡Mierda! Me golpeé el pie.

   Damn! I hit my foot.

   ¿Por qué mierda está lloviendo?

   Why the fuck is it raining?

   • 1967, Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude:

     No me verás —dijo el coronel Aureliano Buendía—. Ponte los zapatos y ayúdame a terminar con esta guerra de mierda.

     "You won't see me," said Colonel Aureliano Buendía. "Put on your shoes and help me end this shitty war."

• “mierda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• "mierda" at Oxford Dictionaries