durt

durt (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of dirt.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:

     In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.

   • c. 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subiect”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 31, column 1:

     [C]an this durt draw us / To ſuch a ſtupid tameneſſe, that our ſervice / Neglected, and look'd lamely on, and skewd at / With a few honourable words, and this, is righted?

• RTU'd, turd

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *durˀtei (“to stab, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰérh₃-ti.

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dur̃t (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present duru, dur, dur, past dūru)

1. to stab
2. to thrust
3. to prick
4. to jab