lort

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Danish

Etymology

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

Interjection

lort

  1. crap, shit (See Thesaurus:dammit)

Noun

lort c (singular definite lorten, plural indefinite lorte)

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

Inflection

Synonyms

Noun

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)

Synonyms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

References

Swedish

Noun

lort c

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

Usage notes

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.

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