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Gert

American  
[gurt] / gɜrt /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Gertrude.


gert British  
/ ɡɜːt /

adverb

  1. dialect great or very big

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Traces of DNA in the stomachs of predatory snails give a team led by LMU geobiologist Gert Wörheide new insights into the ecology of placozoans.

From Science Daily Apr. 11, 2024

"It is such a shame the wonderful actor Gert Frobe, who played Goldfinger, had passed away before I started my photographic career, but it will take a lot to beat this wonderful character."

From BBC Dec. 2, 2023

After the family returned to New York, Ms. Kollisch and Gert Berliner separated, in 1959.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2023

An eighth named storm, Gert, dissipated on Tuesday.

From Seattle Times Aug. 22, 2023

And he handed Gert a stack of money as thick as a novel.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

All on a sudden I were stannin' i' a gert park, and eh! but there were grand trees.

From Tales of the Ridings by Vaughan, C.

Konungr segir: 'víst hefir hann mikit skipaz, en ekki hefir Họttr einn dýrit drepit, heldr hefir þú þat gert.'

From The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries by Olson, Oscar Ludvig

"Well then, thou gert oaf, why don't 'ee let un in?" said Dame Griggs.

From Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk by Pyle, Howard

Wun sed it mud tak place at rushberring, another sed next muck-spreading toime, a third sed it mud be dug et gert wind-day e memory o’ oud Jack K—. 

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis

Konungr bað hirðmenn vera hrausta ok duga nú hvern eptir því, sem hann hefði hug til, ok ráða af óvætt þenna; ok svá var gert, sem konungr bauð, at þeir bjuggu sik til þess.

From The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries by Olson, Oscar Ludvig

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