blort

plural blorts

1. countableuncommonuncountableA 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

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   "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. archaicuncountablecomputingA metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.

   B BLORT ADD BRANCH TO BLORT

   1977, Barbara J. Burian, A Simplified Approach to S/370 Assembly Language Programming, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 312

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   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

   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

present singular third person blorts · participle present blorting · participle past blorted · past blorted

1. ambitransitiveuncommonTo defecate, especially into a diaper.

   Yay I blorted my huggies^([sic]) my first loaded diaper of the new year

   2020 January 1, @Cassidyfops, Twitter

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   [In] every episode you make a cameo where you blort your diaper in the most inappropriate place

   2015 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- ohnevermind

   2017 September 14, @PuffyPachi, 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

1. uncommonartIndicates the sound of defecation, especially into a diaper.

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of blort.