gurt
9.9
Very large, like a big pumpkin
- adjective
- UK
- 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
Large in size and often used in a joking way
is neutral and lacks the humorous tone
Brobdingnagian
vsgurt
9.9
Very large, like something from a story about giants
is neutral and used in dialect rather than literary 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'.