Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small scrap or leaving of food after a meal is completed. Often used in the plural.
- n. A scrap; a bit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fragment; a scrap; a piece of refuse: usually in the plural.
- To turn away from with disgust; refuse.
- n. A money of account in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Riga, etc.
- n. A Danish unit of weight, the thousandth part of the pund or pound.
- n. A vector of unit length.
Wiktionary
- n. A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
- v. transitive, dialectal To turn away from with disgust; refuse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural.
Etymologies
- From Middle English ort, from Old English *orǣt ("that which is left after eating", literally "out-eat"), equivalent to or- + eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte ("refuse of food"), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort ("ort"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English orte, food left by animals, probably from Middle Dutch : oor, out; see ud- in Indo-European roots + eten, to eat; see ed- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“An ghaoth ag breith ort is ag tarraingt ar do �ada�”
“If you didn't see it, the day after her death The Newshour rebroadcast an essay of hers from 1986 about art in Texas -- or as Molly pronounces it, "ort" -- an appreciation for the colorful and absurd in Texas.”
“No, no, no, an "ort" is a small scrap of food left after a meal is completed.”
“The company's Gattex drug was successful in a late-stage study in treating patients with sh ort bowel syndrome, reducing the amount of intravenous nutrition needed by patients with the condition.”
The Wall Street Journal: Stocks End Best January in Years on a Strong Note
“I didn't see it in the theatre, and I'm s ort of sad about that now because it was very pretty and I imagine it would have been improved by being very big.”
“In most regions, retailers and manufacturers reported that costs were rising, the Fed rep ort showed.”
““[T] ort reform does not provide a magical ‘silver-bullet’ that will immediately affect medical malpractice insurance rates.””
“[T] ort reform ‘will not eliminate the market dynamics that lead to insurance cycles,’ and ‘we must not over-promise — or even imply — that insurance cycles will end when civil justice reform begins.’”
“Earlier this year, she argued in defense of the law that makes it a crime to provide "material supp ort" to terrorist groups.”
The Wall Street Journal: Senator Doesn't See Bid to Block Kagan
“In other words, if this whole other-chick subplot is anything more than a conversational ort relative to the cake of your time together (see, I can torture a dessert metaphor, too), then that's a bad sign.”
The Washington Post: Carolyn Hax: He likes two girls, and plays one against the other
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ort’.
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I can haz cheezeburgerisms
dis iz y u cant spelcaturday, haz, habn't, derp, derpy, kitteh, teh, cyoot, mai, baw, kai, ai and 381 more...
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
ozostomia, ozoniferous, oxytone, oxytocic, oxyphonia, oxymoron, oxygeusia, oxyblepsia, oxyacanthous, oxter, oxyacaesthesia, owling and 504 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
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Not Much
smidgeon, iota, scintilla, dab, bit, trace, touch, soupçon, crumb, dash, drop, whit and 19 more...
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Les Misérables
A selection of words from the epic by Victor Hugo
perquisites, dispensations, execrate, spikenard, fireplaace, effeminate foppery, delaine, hoarfrost, lackadaisicalness, ort, geldings, milch and 103 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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SAVED FAVES
Listless no more,
arrears, addle, akimbo, allure, appurtenance, bibelot, bibulous, bifurcate, blither, boodle, crapulous, coprolite and 122 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ort.
grandpa27 My use of ort (Sing.) refers to a bit of food lodged between the teeth, dislodged and spit out. That certainly meets the definition: " A fragment of food left over from a meal:". Jul 2, 2011
reesetee You bet. Oct 13, 2008
mollusque I have it as orts. But thanks for thinking of me! Oct 13, 2008
reesetee Also see urt.
Mollusque, would this be appropriate for your "Lees" list? Oct 13, 2008
chained_bear A fragment of food left over from a meal; fodder left by cattle; a refuse scrap; leavings. Usu. in pl. Also fig.: a fragment, esp. of wisdom, wit, knowledge, etc. (OED online) Feb 5, 2007