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mort

noun
/mɔːt/UK/mɔɹt/US/mɔː(ɹ)t/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from mintš — “female genitals”
  2. derived from motte — “mound, esp. mons veneris”
  3. derived from mutte
  4. derived from mot — “pig, lewd woman”
  5. derived from amourette — “a crush”
  6. derived from morwyn — “maid, virgin”
  7. derived from modryb — “aunt”

Definitions

  1. Death

    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.

  2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.

    • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.

  3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A variety of dummy whist for three players.

    2. The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.

    3. A great quantity or number.

      • a mort of water
      • Full o’ sut this chimney is. Ain’t been swep’ for a mort o’ years I reckon.
      • 1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.

    4. A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and…

      A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.

    5. A three-year-old salmon.

    6. A woman

      A woman; a female.

      • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
      • KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they[…]

    7. A surname.

    8. A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.

The neighborhood

Derived

micromort, morkin, mort bell, mort cloth, morthouse, mortling, mort stone

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mort. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA