Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whortleberry or its fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fruit of the whortleberry, or the shrub itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The whortleberry, or bilberry. See
whortleberry (a).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
whortleberry , orbilberry .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Funny that, just a few whort years ago, it was our side saying: “We will not let this nation and what it stands for be destroyed from within by people who embrace the evils of Fascism/Totalitarianism/Neo-Conservatism.”
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But the tea and the bread and butter and the whort jam were like no food on earth.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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That good lady was alone, and after a few civilities Mr. Lewisham opened his Shakespeare and read from a mark onward — that mark, by-the-bye, was in the middle of a scene — while he consumed mechanically a number of slices of bread and whort jam.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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"You're the fust pineter whort I've knowed," said JULIA SANBY, demurely.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various
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But the tea and the bread and butter and the whort jam were like no food on earth.
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Mr. Lewisham opened his Shakespeare and read from a mark onward -- that mark, by-the-bye, was in the middle of a scene -- while he consumed mechanically a number of slices of bread and whort jam.
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They fay that thofe people whilft they were yet fettled here, made little diflies of this bark for gathering whort -
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"She don't tell no lies to get 'erself out of nothin'; 'cos she's so bad that she don't keer whort rows she gets inter.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various
hernesheir commented on the word whort
One for the berry-pickers.
August 8, 2014