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lirt

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
4
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5
Letters
4

Definition of lirt

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To deceive; beguile.
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verb

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To deceive; beguile.
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To cheat; befool.
  3. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To toss.
  4. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To walk or move in a quick, lively, or pert manner.
  5. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To gambol; frisk.

noun

  1. (UK, dialectal)Deception; guile.
  2. (UK, dialectal)A cheat; a go-by.

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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”).

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