name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
mort
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Pronunciation
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/mɔː(ɹ)t/
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UK: /mɔːt/
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US: /mɔɹt/
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CMU ARPABET: M AO1 R T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
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noun
Meaning 3
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
A variety of dummy whist for three players.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
Meaning 7
The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
Meaning 8
A great quantity or number.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 9
A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
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Usage: Internet, informal
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noun
Meaning 10
A three-year-old salmon.
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noun
Meaning 11
A woman; a female.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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History
Etymology
Shortening.
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.