ort

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”), Middle High German urez, German uräß.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA^(key): /ɔːt/
• (US) enPR: ôrt, IPA^(key): /ɔːɹt/
• Homophones: aught, ought (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

ort (plural orts)

1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.

• (fragment): bit, chip; See also Thesaurus:piece
• (leftover food): gubbins, leftover, scrap
• (any remainder): remnant, residue; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• (a piece of refuse): garbage, rubbish; See also Thesaurus:trash

ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

• OTR, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, rot, tor

• IPA^(key): /ɔrtʰ/

From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).

ort

1. long

From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).

Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.

ort

1. gunpowder

From Latin hortus.

ort m (plural orts)

1. vegetable garden

• ortae

From Old Irish fort.

• IPA^(key): /ɔɾˠt̪ˠ/

ort (emphatic ortsa)

1. second-person singular of ar: on you sg

From Old Irish fort.

ort

1. 2nd person singular informal of er

   on you

• orts (emphatic)

From Proto-Germanic *uzdaz, whence Old English ord, Old Norse oddr

ort m

1. sharp point

• Middle High German: ort
  • German: Ort
  • Luxembourgish: Uert

From Old Irish fort.

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˠst/

ort

1. on you (informal singular)

• ortsa

• oirbh

• IPA^(key): /ʊʈː/

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ort c

1. (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
2. (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)

• (place): bostadsort, centralort, föedelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe