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Gert vs Girt - What's the difference?

gert | girt |

As adjectives the difference between gert and girt

is that gert is big while girt is bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

As an adverb gert

is very.

As a noun girt is

a horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

As a verb girt is

to gird.

gert

English

Alternative forms

* gurt

Adjective

(-)
  • (slang, Bristol) big
  • That's a gert sandwich.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (slang, Bristol) very
  • That's a gert big sandwich.
    That pizza was gert tasty.

    Derived terms

    * gert lush

    girt

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
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  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To gird.
  • To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
  • To measure the girth of.
  • Etymology 3

    See gird

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gird)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
  • Anagrams

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