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lirt

lirt

English

Alternative forms

  • lirte

Verb

lirt ‎(third-person singular simple present lirts, present participle lirting, simple past and past participle lirted)

  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To deceive; beguile.
  2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To cheat; befool.
Derived terms

Noun

lirt ‎(plural lirts)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Deception; guile.
  2. (Britain dialectal) A cheat; a go-by.

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Perhaps alteration of lirk ‎(“to jerk”).

Verb

lirt ‎(third-person singular simple present lirts, present participle lirting, simple past and past participle lirted)

  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To toss.
  2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To walk or move in a quick, lively, or pert manner.
  3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To gambol; frisk.

Etymology

From Middle English lirten, lurten ‎(“to cheat”), from Old English *lyrtan (found only in belyrtan ‎(“to deceive”)), from Proto-Germanic *lurtijaną ‎(“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *lerd- ‎(“to bend, crook”). Cognate with Scots lirt ‎(“to cheat, deceive, delude”), Middle High German lürzen ‎(“to deceive”), Middle High German lerz, lurz, lorz ‎(“left, left-handed”), Old English lort, lyrt ‎(“crooked”).

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