What does "mort" mean?
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
Mort
/mɔɹt/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
- Grammar: mort is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: cadaver, corpse, dead, death.
- Useful contrasts: alive, birth, cove.
- Usage evidence: Whenever he went to the bathroom, he would bring along a Mort & Phil comic book.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. countable, uncountable
"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 great quantity or number.
"a mort of water"
- 3 A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. Internet, informal
- 4 A three-year-old salmon.
- 5 A woman; a female. UK, obsolete
"Male gypsies all, not a mort among them."
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- 6 A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. countable, uncountable
"The sportsman then sounded a treble mort."
- 7 The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 8 A variety of dummy whist for three players. countable, uncountable
- 9 The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort. countable, uncountable
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
Example
"Whenever he went to the bathroom, he would bring along a Mort & Phil comic book."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "mort"?
Common synonyms include: cadaver, corpse, dead, death, deceased, demise.
How do you use "mort" in a sentence?
Whenever he went to the bathroom, he would bring along a Mort & Phil comic book.
How do you pronounce "mort"?
Pronounced /mɔɹt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).
Etymology 3
Clipping of mortal.
Etymology 4
Uncertain.
Etymology 5
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.
Etymology 6
Shortening.