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mort¹
- /mɔːt/ UK
- /mɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
noun morts
- Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword.
- A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.
- The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- A variety of dummy whist for three players.
- The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
mort²
- /mɔːt/ UK
- /mɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).
noun morts
- A great quantity or number. a mort of water
mort³
- /mɔːt/ UK
- /mɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
Clipping of mortal.
noun morts
- A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
Opposite: immort
mort⁴
- /mɔːt/ UK
- /mɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
Uncertain.
noun morts
- A three-year-old salmon.
mort⁵
- /mɔːt/ UK
- /mɔɹt/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
UK circa 1560–1890. Unknown. Documented possibilities include:
* From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish.
* From Welsh modryb (“aunt”)
* From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”)
* From French amourette (“a crush”)
* From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte.
* From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”)
* From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge.
noun morts · mot · mott
-
A woman; a female.
Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
Similar: woman
Mort⁶
- /mɔː(ɹ)t/
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
Shortening.
proper noun Morts
- A surname.
- A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: dying, dead, killing, death, kill, gone, penalty, gage, killed, tue, trompe, dies, morty, deaths, died, passing
noun
Opposite: immort
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title = {mort},
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