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Durt vs Gurt - What's the difference?

durt | gurt |

As a verb durt

is .

As an acronym gurt is

; a generic term for proposed or implemented methods to restrict use of genetically modified plants, by ensuring the sterility of any seeds .

durt

English

Noun

(en-noun)
    • In filthy durt , and left so in the loathely soyle ? Spenser.
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    gurt

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
    • (Page)
    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    From great.

    Alternative forms

    * gert

    Adjective

  • * 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.