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lort

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse lortr (excrement, feces), akin to Faroese lortur, Icelandic lortur. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *lort (crooked; bent; left; left-handed; dastardly). If so, then related also to English lirt (to trick; deceive), German dialectal lurz (left; bad; wicked).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lort/, [ˈloɐ̯ˀd]

Interjection

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lort

  1. crap, shit (See Thesaurus:dammit)

Noun

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lort c (singular definite lorten, plural indefinite lorte)

  1. turd (a piece of excrement)
  2. (vulgar, derogatory) jerk, bastard

Inflection

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Synonyms

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Noun

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lort n (singular definite lortet, not used in plural form)

  1. crap, shit (See Thesaurus:feces)
  2. (informal) muck, rubbish (See Thesaurus:trash and Thesaurus:junk)
  3. (informal) rubbish, drivel (See Thesaurus:nonsense)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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lort m (definite singular lorten, indefinite plural lortar, definite plural lortane)

  1. a turd (a piece of excrement - mainly used of animal excrement)

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Swedish

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Noun

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lort c

  1. dirt, filth, grime
  2. (dated) excrement

Usage notes

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Smuts vs. lort is fairly close to English dirt vs. filth. Lort is a bit more unpleasant (and possibly more judgmental) and can sound old-fashioned.

Declension

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Declension of lort
nominative genitive
singular indefinite lort lorts
definite lorten lortens
plural indefinite lortar lortars
definite lortarna lortarnas

Derived terms

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