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blort

/blɔɹt/

blort noun: a snort of mucus or liquid out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny, or the sound of blowing one's nose; also, a sniffle.

Noun

blort (countable and uncountable, plural blorts)

  1. (uncommon) A snort of mucus or liquid out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny, or the sound of blowing one's nose; also, a sniffle.
    • Beside her, Mistress Weatherwax began to snore again, which Tiffany took to mean that she was in her body. She gave the old woman a nudge, and the sound that had been a regular gnaaaargrgrgrgrg suddenly became blort.2004, Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 218
    • "I can't stand it! He can't really mean he doesn't l-l-love me when I love him so much!" she wailed, crumpling to the floor like a discarded doll with complete disregard for her clothes. She blew her nose with musical blorts in between sobs.2014, Britni Patterson, Justice & Mercy, Maplebonnet Publishing, →ISBN, page 68
  2. (archaic, uncountable) A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
    • B BLORT ADD BRANCH TO BLORT1977, Barbara J. Burian, A Simplified Approach to S/370 Assembly Language Programming, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 312
    • In all programming languages in which strings are defined, the underlying set of characters contains not only the letters of the alphabet, but also nonalphabetic characters such as '7' and '+. We will follow the notation used in most languages by enclosing strings in single quotes, so, for example...1989, Rick Decker, Data Structures, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 34

Verb

blort (third-person singular simple present blorts, present participle blorting, simple past and past participle blorted)

  1. (ambitransitive, uncommon) To defecate, especially into a diaper.
    • [In] every episode you make a cameo where you blort your diaper in the most inappropriate place2015 February 11, @ChubblesBear, Twitter
    • Good thing she's wearing a dress so her outfit doesn't tear if she blorts! Her clothes are safe and- ohnevermind2017 September 14, @PuffyPachi, Twitter

Interjection

  1. (uncommon) Indicates the sound of defecation, especially into a diaper.

Examples of blort in a sentence

  • We will follow the notation used in most languages by enclosing strings in single quotes, so, for example, we can write the strings 'AARDVARK' and '% *blort!!'.1989, Rick Decker, Data Structures, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 34:
  • In either instance, if a matching password is found by the if command, control branches to the appropriate label, FARKLE or BLORT. (More passwords could be added here.)1991, Van Wolverton, Dan Gookin, Supercharging MS-DOS, 3 edition, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 133:
  • This example declares an element with a generic identifier of blort.1995, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Lou Burnard, “The Design of the TEI Encoding Scheme”, in Computers and the Humanities, volume 29, number 1...
  • This command is exactly the same as running mkdir blort; svn add blort.2008, C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, edited by Mary E. Treseler, Version Control with Subversion, 2 edition...

Forms of blort

Noun
pluralblorts
Verb
third-person singular presentblorts
present participleblorting
past participleblorted
pastblorted

Origin of blort

Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also a blend of blow + snort.

Questions about blort

What does blort mean?
Blort means a snort of mucus or liquid out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny, or the sound of blowing one's nose; also, a sniffle.
How do you use blort in a sentence?
We will follow the notation used in most languages by enclosing strings in single quotes, so, for example, we can write the strings 'AARDVARK' and '% *blort!!'.
What part of speech is blort?
Blort can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
How do you pronounce blort?
Blort is pronounced /blɔɹt/.
What is the plural of blort?
The plural of blort is blorts.

Words near blort in the dictionary

  1. blorphed
  2. blorphing
  3. blorphs
  4. blorping
  5. blorps
  6. blort
  7. blorted
  8. blorting
  9. blorts
  10. Blose
  11. Bloses

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