Gurt vs Gurn - What's the difference?
gurt | gurn |
(mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
* 1842 , The Sportsman , Volume VI: January to June,
* 1845 , Douglas Jerrold (editor), Shilling Magazine , Volume II: July to December,
* 1884 , John Coker Egerton, Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways: Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature ,
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 .As a noun gurn is
(british) a distorted facial expression.As a verb gurn is
(british) to make a grotesque or funny face.gurt
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- (Page)
Etymology 2
From great.Alternative forms
* gertAdjective
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.
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.”
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.