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ort^¹

/ɔːt/ UK
/oɹt/ US
/ɔːɹt/
/ɔːt/

Sounds like aught, ought (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”); for more, see Old English or-, English eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.

noun orts

plural normally A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse. […]the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the
Similar: bit, gubbins, leftover, scrap, remnant, garbage
historical A small coin, formerly used in central Europe. ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.

Similar: chip, residue, rubbish

verb orts · orting · orted

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

ORT^²

noun ORTs

abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of oral rehydration therapy

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noun

Similar: chip, residue, rubbish

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noun a scrap of leftover

Español	migaja, resto
Русский	оста́тки ostátki, объе́дки obʺjédki

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@misc{ort_2026,
  title = {ort},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ort},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}

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