dogturd

plural dogturds

1. A piece of solid dog feces.

   He stepped carefully round a dogturd on the pavement.

   2001, Peter Jinks, Hallam Foe, London: Review, Headline Book Publishing, published 2002, →ISBN, page 21

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   He stares at the half-inch thick wad of banknotes as though I’ve just handed him a fresh dogturd.

   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

   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?

   2004, Lucia Perillo, “To My Big Nose”, in Leelila Strogov, editor, Swink, number 1, Swink, Inc., →ISBN, page 71

   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.

   2010, Jeremy Jones, “Sex and Sexuality”, in An Introduction to Chakrology™ – Chakra Theory, Therapy and Balancing, Witham: The Yoga College, →ISBN, page 110