lort

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lortr (“excrement, feces”), akin to Faroese lortur, Icelandic lortur. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“crooked; bent; left; left-handed; dastardly”). If so, then related also to English lirt (“to trick; deceive”), German dialectal lurz (“left; bad; wicked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lort/, [ˈloɐ̯ˀd]

Interjection

lort

1. crap, shit (See Thesaurus:dammit)

Noun

lort c (singular definite lorten, plural indefinite lorte)

1. turd (a piece of excrement)
2. (vulgar, derogatory) jerk, bastard

Inflection

Declension of lort

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lort	lorten	lorte	lortene
genitive	lorts	lortens	lortes	lortenes

Synonyms

• (a piece of excrement): bæ
• (bastard): skid, skiderik

Noun

lort n (singular definite lortet, not used in plural form)

1. crap, shit (See Thesaurus:feces)
2. (informal) muck, rubbish (See Thesaurus:trash and Thesaurus:junk)
3. (informal) rubbish, drivel (See Thesaurus:nonsense)

Synonyms

• (feces): afføring, ekskrementer
• (trash): bras, skidt
• (nonsense): pis, gas

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʊrt/

Noun

lort m (definite singular lorten, indefinite plural lortar, definite plural lortane)

1. a turd (a piece of excrement - mainly used of animal excrement)

References

• “lort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

lort c

1. dirt, filth, grime
2. (dated) excrement

Usage notes

Smuts vs. lort is fairly close to English dirt vs. filth. Lort is a bit more unpleasant (and possibly more judgmental) and can sound old-fashioned.

Declension

Declension of lort

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lort	lorts
	definite	lorten	lortens
plural	indefinite	lortar	lortars
	definite	lortarna	lortarnas

Derived terms

• fluglort (“flyspeck”)
• lortgris (“someone filthy”)
• sista lorten stänger porten

Related terms

• lortig (“dirty, filthy”)

References

• lort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)