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語源 1

Origin obscure. Possibly a metathesis of gutter. Cf. 中期英語 gout, got (“watercourse, ditch, sluice”)

名詞

gurt (plural gurts)

1. (mining) (Can we verify this sense?) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

語源 2

From 中期英語 girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

別の表記

• gert
• girt

形容詞

gurt

1. (UK dialect, West Country) Pronunciation spelling of great.

   Then I opens the cupboard door and I sees a gurt big spider looking up at me.

   • 1842, The Sportsman, Volume VI: January to June, page 103:

     Zo ′e bought a slap-up rod and tackle, and, ev coose, a darn gurt book vull o′ vlies — talk′d about ketchin′ whackin′ trout, and me — ap a salmon the fust time.

   • 1845, Douglas Jerrold, editor, Shilling Magazine, Volume II: July to December, page 416:

     “That was the word,” said Farmer Forder. “Hav′n pocketed the tuppunce, the chap as show′d off the clock opened the case, and let me zee the works of ′un, and wonderful works they was : wheels within wheels, and all sorts o′ crinkum-crankums, like a gurt puzzle. […] ”

   • 1884, John Coker Egerton, Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways: Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature‎, page 27:

     “Well, Tom, where did those birds settle?”
     “Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”
     Not a bird, however, was to be found.

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• trug, turg