Wort vs Wors - What's the difference?
wort | wors |
A plant; herb; vegetable.
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* 1845 , Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works :
Any of various plants or herbs.
Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer
(South Africa, slang) boerewors, a traditional home-made sausage, now commercially available.
As nouns the difference between wort and wors
is that wort is word as an isolated unit while wors is (south africa|slang) boerewors, a traditional home-made sausage, now commercially available.wort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
- It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
