The Shard is a 309m 72 story glass skyscraper in London UK. It has an Observation deck from the 68th - 72nd floors. Its the tallest building in Europe and has breathtaking views.
Guy 1: 'Hey man are you going to the shard today?'
Guy 2: 'Yep, the views from the observation decks are amazing!'
Guy 2: 'Yep, the views from the observation decks are amazing!'
by Crimson Rainbow May 26, 2014
Get the The Shard mug.A portmanteau of the verbs "shit" and "fart," which describes the instance of accidentally shitting one's pants based on the assumption of farting prior to release.
A bit of technical information:
Despite one's intuition that the un-inflected form of the verb would be "shart," (borrowing the onset from "shit" and the rhyme of "fart") It's phonological realization, "shard," implies that the word entered the lexicon as "sharted."
Much in the same way the words "writer" and "rider" can not be distinguished from one another in speech with out a rich enough context (because they sound the same), "sharded" and "sharted" will also sound identical due to flapping. Hence, speakers of English chose "shard" as opposed to "shart" by means of back-formation. Selection of the phoneme /d/ over /t/ can likely be attributed to the feature {+voice} of the flapped consonant.
A bit of technical information:
Despite one's intuition that the un-inflected form of the verb would be "shart," (borrowing the onset from "shit" and the rhyme of "fart") It's phonological realization, "shard," implies that the word entered the lexicon as "sharted."
Much in the same way the words "writer" and "rider" can not be distinguished from one another in speech with out a rich enough context (because they sound the same), "sharded" and "sharted" will also sound identical due to flapping. Hence, speakers of English chose "shard" as opposed to "shart" by means of back-formation. Selection of the phoneme /d/ over /t/ can likely be attributed to the feature {+voice} of the flapped consonant.
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Get the SHARDONNAE mug.it means the same thing as 'shart' but,, its more powerful because it has a d instead of a t. or it can be used as an adjective.
me: i feel so shard rn :(((
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Get the shard mug.(Noun) A female meth addict / dope whore who is so twacked out that she has convincesd herself that being a strung out junkie whore is fashionable. She tells herself how pretty she is as she spends hours in the mirror picking at her face and covering it with layer upon layer of cheap make up and body spray which she stole from Dollar General. She then ventures out into the world amongst the other jank-skanks looking for the next plug to blow for a gram.
Courtney - "so whats it gonna be"
The Plug- " I mean... I'll give you .5 for some head but thats about it"
Courtney - "motherfucker I aint no jank-skank, Im a shard barbie!"
The Plug - "ok then .4 you disgusting whore"
Courtney - fuck...ok but ill lick your asshole for the whole G.
The Plug- " I mean... I'll give you .5 for some head but thats about it"
Courtney - "motherfucker I aint no jank-skank, Im a shard barbie!"
The Plug - "ok then .4 you disgusting whore"
Courtney - fuck...ok but ill lick your asshole for the whole G.
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