lort

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”).

• IPA^(key): /lort/,

lort

1. crap, shit (See Thesaurus:dammit)

lort c (singular definite lorten, plural indefinite lorte)

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

• (a piece of excrement): bæ
• (bastard): skid, skiderik

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)

• (feces): afføring, ekskrementer
• (trash): bras, skidt
• (nonsense): pis, gas

• “lort” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /lʊrt/

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

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

• “lort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

lort c

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

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.

• fluglort (“flyspeck”)
• lortgris (“someone filthy”)
• sista lorten stänger porten

• lorta (“to soil”)
• lortig (“dirty, filthy”)

• lort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)