English
Etymology
From Middle Low German orte ‘refuse of food’, cognate with early-modern Dutch ooræte, perhaps from Dutch oor- ‘out’ + etten ‘eat’.
Pronunciation
IPA: /ɔ:t/
Noun
ort (plural ort or orts)
- (usually plural) a scrap of leftover food; any remainder
- 1922: Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- 1997: Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
