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Mort vs Rort - What's the difference?

mort | rort |

As a noun mort

is roach; a small fish.

As an adjective rort is

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As a verb rort is

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mort

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  • A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
    • Derived terms
    * mort cloth * mort stone

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".

    Noun

  • A great quantity or number.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • There was a mort of merrymaking.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (mortal).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
    • Antonyms
    * immort English clippings

    Etymology 4

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A three-year-old salmon.

    • Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

    Anagrams

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    rort

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A scam or fraud, especially involving the misappropriation of public money or resources.
  • * 2008 , Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) , page 4067,
    • Not all of the projects were bad or rorts ; the majority were no doubt valuable to their communities.
  • * 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet, page 81,
    • It?s one of the great rorts in Australia that for overstaying your welcome (even by five minutes) in a space that may cost only a few dollars to park in, local councils are prepared to fine you anywhere from $50 to $120.
  • * 2011 , Malcolm Knox, , Fierce Focus , unnumbered page,
    • The rort was that South Australia and Western Australia, who controlled their grounds, were allowed to double-dip. In Perth, for instance, the WACA sold season tickets, which they marketed in the form of memberships, to everything at the ground, including football. They had a huge membership and were rolling in money, but because they?d sold their tickets in memberships, they declared a loss on the cricket Test match. At the end of the season, though, they?d get the same twofourteenths(sic) of Pool Two as Queensland.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, transitive) To cheat or defraud.
  • * 1992 , Victorian Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) , page 496,
    • He wants to change the system for the benefit of all and wants to stop the incredible rorting that has occurred within the prisons system.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2009, date=January 30 , author=Ben Packham , title=Same-sex couples accused of cheating system, work=Herald Sun citation , passage=SINGLE pensioners living together will come under scrutiny from Centrelink looking for same-sex couples rorting welfare.}}
  • * 2011 , James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles From Down Under , page 118,
    • York is then alleged to have rorted the doctor out of his share.

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