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gurt

gurt

9.9
Very large, like a big pumpkin
  • adjective
  • UK
translation icon : enorme
  • We saw a gurt pile of logs by the barn.

Examples

  • The elephant is a gurt creature.

  • He caught a gurt fish down at the river yesterday.

  • That is a gurt big pumpkin in the field.

  • That was a gurt sandwich!

  • That is a gurt big pumpkin in the field.

  • We saw a gurt pile of logs by the barn.

  • The elephant is a gurt creature.

Synonyms

gargantuan
vsgurt
19 7.3

Very large, much bigger than usual

is less extreme in size
bigly
vsgurt
  • Informal
1 9.6

Large in size and often used in a joking way

is neutral and lacks the humorous tone
9.9

Very large, like something from a story about giants

is neutral and used in dialect rather than literary tone

How Big

gurt
  • UK
9.9
big
1.0
medium
162 1.3
small
2 1.1

Surface Forms

gurt positive

Etymology

Gurt is an old dialect word from northern English that grew as a strong form of great and is like girth ('thickness' or 'size'). So a gurt thing is 'very large'.