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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lirt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lirt
IPA
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To deceive; beguile.

British usage; Transitive verb

verb

To cheat; befool.

British usage; Transitive verb

noun

Deception; guile.

British usage

noun

A cheat; a go-by.

British usage

verb

To toss.

British usage; Transitive verb

verb

To walk or move in a quick, lively, or pert manner.

British usage; Intransitive verb

verb

To gambol; frisk.

British usage; Intransitive verb

Etymology

From Middle English lirten, lurten (“to cheat”), from Old English *lyrtan (found only in belyrtan (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *lurtijan (“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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *lerd-, lirten, *lyrtan, *lurtijan

Usage

Inflected Forms

lirts (present, singular) lirting (participle, present) lirted (participle, past) lirted (past) lirte (alternative, obsolete) lirts (plural)

Rhymes With

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Questions

What does lirt mean?
To deceive; beguile.
Where does lirt come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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