ort

(ôrt)
n.

1. A small scrap or leaving of food after a meal is completed. Often used in the plural.
2. A scrap; a bit.

[Middle English orte, food left by animals, probably from Middle Dutch : oor, out + eten, to eat.]

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noun

1. Residual matter. butt⁴, end, fragment, scrap¹, shard, stub. See leftover.
2. A tiny amount: bit¹, crumb, dab¹, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ounce, particle, scrap¹, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. Chiefly British spot. See big/small/amount.

a morsel left at a meal: scrap

noun
noun, Austral

The anus; also, the buttocks. (1952 —) .
J. Wynnum Take it from me, there's more ways of killin' a cat than fillin' its ort with sand (1962).

[Origin unknown.]

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