Turd vs Terf - What's the difference?
turd | terf |
(mildly, vulgar) A piece of solid animal or human feces.
A pejorative term, typically directed at a person.
A radical feminist (see (radical feminism)) who believes that the feminist movement should not include transwomen or address trans-related issues.
* 2013 , Toni Browning-Early,
* 2013 , Rachel Eliason, "
* 2014 , Roz Kaveney, "
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As nouns the difference between turd and terf
is that turd is (mildly|vulgar) a piece of solid animal or human feces while terf is a radical feminist (see (radical feminism)) who believes that the feminist movement should not include transwomen or address trans-related issues.turd
English
Noun
(en noun)- I went to the toilet to drop a turd .
Usage notes
Whether it should be considered an especially vulgar insult is subject to judgment, but certainly it would have a broader acceptability than many vulgarities in common use today.terf
English
Noun
(en noun)letter to the editor, QNotes , Volume 28, Number 6, 19 July - 1 August 2013, page 4:
- Dear "A Lesbian Democrat"
- Your TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) agenda and what it represents is no better than the bigoted regressive agenda of the religious right.
Wired This Way", ACCESSline , Volume 27, Number 12, December 2013, page 13:
- At the further extreme TERF ’s(sic) actively promote the message that banning trans women from feminist gathering implies—that trans women are not really women at all.
Woman Enough, The Advocate , 16 July 2014:
- Perhaps the sheer nastiness of TERFs comes from the fact that they don’t just know they’ve lost; they know they were on the wrong side from the beginning.