blort

noun, verb, intj — 4 senses

blort

noun

/blɔɹt/

Etymology Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also a blend of blow + snort.

1

Uncommon A snort of mucus or liquid out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny, or the sound of blowing one's nose; also, a sniffle.

  • Beside her, Mistress Weatherwax began to snore again, which Tiffany took to mean that she was in her body. She gave the old woman a nudge, and the sound that had been a regular gnaaaargrgrgrgrg suddenly became blort.2004, Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 218:
  • "I can't stand it! He can't really mean he doesn't l-l-love me when I love him so much!" she wailed, crumpling to the floor like a discarded doll with complete disregard for her clothes. She blew her nose with musical blorts in between sobs.2014, Britni Patterson, Justice & Mercy, Maplebonnet Publishing, →ISBN, page 68:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Archaic A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.

  • B BLORT ADD BRANCH TO BLORT1977, Barbara J. Burian, A Simplified Approach to S/370 Assembly Language Programming, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 312:
  • In all programming languages in which strings are defined, the underlying set of characters contains not only the letters of the alphabet, but also nonalphabetic characters such as '7' and '+. We will follow the notation used in most languages by enclosing strings in single quotes, so, for example, we can write the strings 'AARDVARK' and '% *blort!!'.1989, Rick Decker, Data Structures, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 34:
4 more examples
  • In either instance, if a matching password is found by the if command, control branches to the appropriate label, FARKLE or BLORT. (More passwords could be added here.)1991, Van Wolverton, Dan Gookin, Supercharging MS-DOS, 3 edition, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 133:
  • This example declares an element with a generic identifier of blort. The two minus signs indicate that neither the start-tag nor the end-tag may be omitted (even if the omitted markup could be unambiguously inferred). The keyword ANY signifies that a blort can contain a mix of character data and any element declared in the DTD, in any sequence.1995, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Lou Burnard, “The Design of the TEI Encoding Scheme”, in Computers and the Humanities, volume 29, number 1, Association for Computers and the Humanities, →JSTOR, page 24:
  • This command is exactly the same as running mkdir blort; svn add blort. That is, a new directory named blort is created and scheduled for addition.2008, C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, edited by Mary E. Treseler, Version Control with Subversion, 2 edition, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 24:
  • So we create a vocabulary called foo, define a word called blort in it and then switch back to making word definitions in the default forth vocabulary. When you invoke foo it makes it so the foo vocabulary is searched first before the forth vocabulary.2019 July 29, u/upofadown, “Forth words collisions problem - does it exists?”, in r/Forth, Reddit:

blort

verb

Etymology Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also a blend of blow + snort.

1

Ambitransitive, Uncommon To defecate, especially into a diaper.

  • [In] every episode you make a cameo where you blort your diaper in the most inappropriate place2015 February 11, @ChubblesBear, Twitter:
  • Good thing she's wearing a dress so her outfit doesn't tear if she blorts! Her clothes are safe and- ohnevermind2017 September 14, @PuffyPachi, Twitter:
3 more examples
  • Yay I blorted my huggies^([sic]) my first loaded diaper of the new year2020 January 1, @Cassidyfops, Twitter:
  • Life has a way of working out. Like the client who canceled our morning call, cuz if he hadn't, I'd be blorting my diaper while talking to him on Zoom and struggling to keep a straight face and not make any sounds.2022 January 24, @AlexBridges99, Twitter:
  • Do you ever come up to a caregiver just to blort on their lap and dash away giggling? c:2025 February 11, @kinnyfox.bsky.social, Bluesky:
Related terms
pamper packing, pushie

blort

intj

Etymology Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also a blend of blow + snort.

1

Art, Arts, Comics, Literature, Media, Publishing Uncommon Indicates the sound of defecation, especially into a diaper.

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