Shorts vs Jorts - What's the difference?
shorts | jorts |
English plurals
Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.
Underwear bottoms.
(uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
* Halliwell
Short, inferior hemp.
(pluralonly) jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length)
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, passage = Jorts are confusing. Do you want to wear jeans or shorts? Our guess is that what you're really saying is that you'd like to wear a longish, slouchy pair of shorts and not look too buttoned-up.
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, passage = Although some feel that jorts' include any manner of denim short regardless of length, others describe ' jorts as strictly of the knee-length, baggy variety.
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* {{quote-book
, date = 2012-03-28
, title = Dads Are the Original Hipsters
, first = Brad
, last = Getty
, location = San Francisco
, publisher = Chronicle Books
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, ol = 25026028M
, page = 11
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, passage = Your dad wore jorts before you did and he's got the short frayed denim to prove it.
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English pluralia tantum
As nouns the difference between shorts and jorts
is that shorts is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while jorts is jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length.shorts
English
(wikipedia shorts)Noun
(en-plural noun)- Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts .
- After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts .
- The first remove above bran is shorts .
