mierda

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

mierda (uncountable)

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

• Usually italicized as a foreign word.

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

mierda f (plural mierdas)

1. (vulgar) shit

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

From Latin merda.

mierda

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

mierda f (plural mierdes)

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

From Old Spanish mierda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjeɾda/, [ˈmjeɾða]

mierda f (plural mierdas)

1. (vulgar) shit

   ¡Vete a la mierda! "Go to shit" (analogous to English "Go to hell")

   ¡Tu hombre [no] vale mierda! (Your man is [not] worth shit!) ("No" or "not" is optional.)

   Odio este pueblucho de mierda (I hate this shitty little town)

2. (vulgar) drunkenness

• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.

• comemierda
• mierda pinchada en un palo
• mucha mierda

¡mierda!

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

• joder
• hostia

• “mierda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• "mierda" at Oxford Dictionaries