Mortとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

名詞

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword.

2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.

3. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
4. (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
5. (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.

派生語

関連する語

語源 2

Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).

名詞

mort (plural morts)

1. A great quantity or number.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 63, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     a mort of water

   • 1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham

     As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.

語源 3

Clipping of mortal.

名詞

mort (plural morts)

1. (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.

反意語

• immort

派生語

語源 4

Uncertain.

名詞

mort (plural morts)

1. A three-year-old salmon.

語源 5

UK circa 1560–1890. Unknown. Documented possibilities include:

• From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish.
• From Welsh modryb (“aunt”)
• From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”)
• From French amourette (“a crush”)
• From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte.
• From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”)
• From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge.

別の表記

• mot, mott

名詞

mort (plural morts)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
   • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:

     Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

   • 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:

     "Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, who leered at him, and both made odd motions backwards and forwards, causing the baskets which hung round them to creak and rustle, and uttering loud shouts of laughter, which roused the echoes of the neighbouring hills.

   • 1896, John Stephen Farmer, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... with Synonyms in English, French ... Etc. Compiled by J.S. Farmer [and W.E. Henley], page 109:

     KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they […]

同意語

• See Thesaurus:woman

派生語

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