nurdle
n.— «Within five feet of me the dog takes a huge dump, the kind that comes out like soft ice cream and lands in a piled up nurdle on the ground. The woman proceeds to start covering it with sand.» —“Dog(Doody)Day Afternoon” by Foon Usenet: alt.surfing Apr. 9, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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