different between gurt vs gurn

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????t/
• (West Country, UK) IPA^(key): /????t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

Origin obscure. Possibly a metathesis of gutter.

Noun

gurt (plural gurts)

1. (mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

Etymology 2

From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

Alternative forms

• gert
• girt

Adjective

gurt

1. (Britain 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. […] ”

   • “Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”

     Not a bird, however, was to be found.

References

Anagrams

• trug, turg

Yola

Alternative forms

• grut

Etymology

From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grut?.

Noun

gurt (plural gurthes)

1. coarse oatmeal

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• girn

Etymology

Early 20th century: dialect variant of grin.

Noun

gurn (plural gurns)

1. (Britain) A distorted facial expression.

Translations

Verb

gurn (third-person singular simple present gurns, present participle gurning, simple past and past participle gurned)

1. (Britain) To make a grotesque or funny face.

Anagrams

• Rung, rung

Manx

Verb

gurn (verbal noun gurneil)

1. to direct, govern

Mutation

Woiwurrung

Noun

gurn

1. the front section of neck

References

• Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124