ort
[awrt]
- Usually orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Origin of ort
1400–50; late Middle English; cognate with Low German ort, early Dutch oorete; compare Old English or- out-, ǣt food (see eat)
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Historical Examples
I paid our postilions in Norwegian orts, which they laid upon a chair and counted, with the assistance of the whole family.
Northern TravelBayard Taylor
From the very next day he left Bipin Babu's orts as they were, and at times forgot to cover the food for him.
Mashi and Other StoriesRabindranath Tagore
Even an elderly woman, the mother of five or six children, cheerfully partakes of the residue, as if it were the orts of gods.
The Hindoos as they AreShib Chunder Bose
Other orts and ends of rabble made up the procession, which with antic and grimace marched about the village and neighbourhood.
British GoblinsWirt Sikes
Since printing throughout the title Orts, a doubt has arisen in my mind as to its fitting the nature of the volume.
A Dish Of OrtsGeorge MacDonald
orts
- (sometimes singular) archaic, or dialect scraps or leavings
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Word Origin
C15: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oorete, from oor- remaining + ete food
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Word Origin and History for orts
ort
n.
"remains of food left from a meal," mid-15c., probably cognate with early Dutch ooraete, Low German ort, from or-, privative prefix, + etan "to eat" (see eat (v.)). Perhaps from an unrecorded Old English word.
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