gurt
9.9
Very large, like a big pumpkin
- adjective
- UK
:
enorme
- We saw a gurt pile of logs by the barn.
Examples
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The elephant is a gurt creature.
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He caught a gurt fish down at the river yesterday.
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That is a gurt big pumpkin in the field.
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That was a gurt sandwich!
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That is a gurt big pumpkin in the field.
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We saw a gurt pile of logs by the barn.
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The elephant is a gurt creature.
Synonyms
Brobdingnagian
vsgurt
Very large, like something from a story about giants
is neutral and used in dialect rather than literary tone
9.6
Large in size and often used in a joking way
is neutral and lacks the humorous tone
How Big
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'.