gurtadj.adv.

Brit.

/ɡəːt/, U.S.

/ɡərt/

Forms: Middle English geret, Middle English gert, Middle English gerte, Middle English gertt, Middle English girte, 1500s gertte; English regional 1700s gart (Cumberland), 1700s– gurt, 1800s gate (Devon), 1800s– gert, 1800s– girt; Scottish pre-1700 gart, pre-1700 gert, pre-1700 1700s–1800s 2000s– girt, 1900s– gurt; Newfoundland 1900s– gert, 1900s– girt.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: great adj.

Etymology: Variant of great adj., with metathesis.Perhaps attested earlier in the place name Gerstan , Lancashire (1094; also Gerhstan (1122); now Garston), if the interpretation of this as lit. ‘great stone’ is correct (compare the name of Greston, Gloucestershire: see discussion at great adj., n., adv., and int.); no such stone is known in the locality today.

Now regional (chiefly English regional (north-western and south-western)).

A. adj.

= great adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > exceptionally large of its kind

gurta1400

swappingc1440

swappit?a1513

strongc1540

thwacking1567

thumping1576

bouncing1579

swingeinga1592

whoppinga1625

rapping1657

spankinga1666

whisking1673

swagging1731

skelping?a1786

whacking1797

slapping1825

plumping1832

walloping1847

slashing1854

smacking1888

plonking1896

sollicking1946

a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 Bardana, an clote, gert burr.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 235 (MED) The fette gerte and fleshy, tokenyth fooly and lowe of wrongis.

1506–7 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 171 To the gertte coost & damage of all the suters befor named.

1568 Bannatyne MS (Hunterian Club) 138 a/7 Suppois girt drouth cum in ȝour mouth.

a1586 W. Dunbar in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 65 God wait gif scho was girt and fat.

1655 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1896) 30 18 Thrie girt kye and ane stirke.

1727 Exmoor Scholding i, in Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 2 June 2/1 Pritha tell rezinable, or hold thy Popping; ya gurt Washamouth.

1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. (1821) 103 She fetched up a girt gird a laffin, an sed [etc.].

a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) ii. 14 Who tells the gurtest fibs now, said I?

1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 59 Saint Gworge, the girt champion, o' fame and renown.

1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 43 She kissed them ance, she kissed them twice, Wi' heart owre girt to speak.

1866 E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton III. ii. 38 She was..‘a gurt lallopping gammerstang wha wasn't wurth her saut’.

1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 55 There's a gurt rattlemouse vleein' about in steyabel, you.

1911 J. Farnol Broad Highway xxv. 146 Black Jarge be a gert, big, strong man—the biggest, gertest, and strongest in the South Country.

1931 J. H. Hall Holy Man vii. 89 It's nae muckle for a gurt man like yersel' to cure a sair leg.

1980 P. O'Brian Surgeon's Mate iii. 83 A gurt fish with a barbel under its chin.

1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 48 Aye, laff, ye girt Scotch git!

2011 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 14 July 6 A lively sermon..about St Peter involving the wielding of a dangerous looking sword..and a gurt big key.

B. adv.

To a large extent or degree; most, very, extremely, really. Now chiefly English regional (south-western). gurt-like: very likely.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very

tooc888

swith971

wellOE

fullOE

rightc1175

muchc1225

wellac1275

gainlya1375

endlyc1440

hard?1440

very1448

odda1500

great1535

jolly1549

fellc1600

veryvery1649

gooda1655

vastly1664

strange1667

bloody1676

ever so1686

heartily1727

real1771

precious1775

quarely1805

murry1818

très1819

freely1820

powerfula1822

gurt1824

almighty1830

heap1832

all-fired1833

gradely1850

real1856

bonny1857

heavens1858

veddy1859

canny1867

some1867

oh-so1881

storming1883

spanking1886

socking1896

hefty1898

velly1898

fair dinkum1904

plurry1907

Pygmalion1914

dinkum1915

beaucoup1918

dirty1920

molto1923

snorting1924

honking1929

hellishing1931

thumpingly1948

way1965

mega1966

mondo1968

seriously1970

totally1972

mucho1978

stonking1990

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 11 Girt like, shoe'l tack uncuth tul't at first.

1869 A. C. Gibson Folk-speech Cumberland 96 Heead theear, girt like, o' purpose.

1905 O. Agnus Root ii. 22 We should never ha' known till he was in his coffin, and p'raps not then, that we had a gurt rich relation.

1992 Kent Information in soc.culture.british (Usenet newsgroup) 2 July True English is spoken in the South West, which is a gurt mint place to visit.

2017 @James_Redmond_1 2 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) It's gonna be gurt lush to be back 'ome, me babber!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gurt
释义	gurtn. /ɡəːt/ Etymology: ? < Anglo-Norman gort: see gorce n. The word occurs in French dialects (Beauce) with the sense of trench, conduit (see Godefroy s.v. gort). dialect. A trench or gutter, esp. in Mining. ΚΠ 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia (1810) iii. vi. 549 By reason of a Gurt or Cleft Rock, made by the Sea. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2098 A heat, Gurt, or Trench. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 322 Gurt, a fret or channel made by great rain or floods in a highway; also a channel to carry off water from one place to another for dressing of Copper Ore, Tin or the like. 1842–71 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches 100 The dykes or drains in Colyford Marsh are called ‘gurts’—synonymous with ‘rhines’ in the Somersetshire Levels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). gurtadj.adv. Brit. /ɡəːt/, U.S. /ɡərt/ Forms: Middle English geret, Middle English gert, Middle English gerte, Middle English gertt, Middle English girte, 1500s gertte; English regional 1700s gart (Cumberland), 1700s– gurt, 1800s gate (Devon), 1800s– gert, 1800s– girt; Scottish pre-1700 gart, pre-1700 gert, pre-1700 1700s–1800s 2000s– girt, 1900s– gurt; Newfoundland 1900s– gert, 1900s– girt. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: great adj. Etymology: Variant of great adj., with metathesis.Perhaps attested earlier in the place name Gerstan , Lancashire (1094; also Gerhstan (1122); now Garston), if the interpretation of this as lit. ‘great stone’ is correct (compare the name of Greston, Gloucestershire: see discussion at great adj., n., adv., and int.); no such stone is known in the locality today. Now regional (chiefly English regional (north-western and south-western)). A. adj. = great adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > exceptionally large of its kind gurta1400 swappingc1440 swappit?a1513 strongc1540 thwacking1567 thumping1576 bouncing1579 swingeinga1592 whoppinga1625 rapping1657 spankinga1666 whisking1673 swagging1731 skelping?a1786 whacking1797 slapping1825 plumping1832 walloping1847 slashing1854 smacking1888 plonking1896 sollicking1946 a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 Bardana, an clote, gert burr. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 235 (MED) The fette gerte and fleshy, tokenyth fooly and lowe of wrongis. 1506–7 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 171 To the gertte coost & damage of all the suters befor named. 1568 Bannatyne MS (Hunterian Club) 138 a/7 Suppois girt drouth cum in ȝour mouth. a1586 W. Dunbar in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 65 God wait gif scho was girt and fat. 1655 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1896) 30 18 Thrie girt kye and ane stirke. 1727 Exmoor Scholding i, in Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 2 June 2/1 Pritha tell rezinable, or hold thy Popping; ya gurt Washamouth. 1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. (1821) 103 She fetched up a girt gird a laffin, an sed [etc.]. a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) ii. 14 Who tells the gurtest fibs now, said I? 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 59 Saint Gworge, the girt champion, o' fame and renown. 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 43 She kissed them ance, she kissed them twice, Wi' heart owre girt to speak. 1866 E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton III. ii. 38 She was..‘a gurt lallopping gammerstang wha wasn't wurth her saut’. 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 55 There's a gurt rattlemouse vleein' about in steyabel, you. 1911 J. Farnol Broad Highway xxv. 146 Black Jarge be a gert, big, strong man—the biggest, gertest, and strongest in the South Country. 1931 J. H. Hall Holy Man vii. 89 It's nae muckle for a gurt man like yersel' to cure a sair leg. 1980 P. O'Brian Surgeon's Mate iii. 83 A gurt fish with a barbel under its chin. 1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 48 Aye, laff, ye girt Scotch git! 2011 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 14 July 6 A lively sermon..about St Peter involving the wielding of a dangerous looking sword..and a gurt big key. B. adv. To a large extent or degree; most, very, extremely, really. Now chiefly English regional (south-western). gurt-like: very likely. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 11 Girt like, shoe'l tack uncuth tul't at first. 1869 A. C. Gibson Folk-speech Cumberland 96 Heead theear, girt like, o' purpose. 1905 O. Agnus Root ii. 22 We should never ha' known till he was in his coffin, and p'raps not then, that we had a gurt rich relation. 1992 Kent Information in soc.culture.british (Usenet newsgroup) 2 July True English is spoken in the South West, which is a gurt mint place to visit. 2017 @James_Redmond_1 2 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) It's gonna be gurt lush to be back 'ome, me babber! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1633adj.adv.a1400
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gurtn.

gurtadj.adv.