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Mort
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
- 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
Etymology
From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).
Clipping of mortal.
Uncertain.
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.
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