whort

See whortleberry.

whort (plural whorts)

1. (botany) The whortleberry, or bilberry (fruit).
   • 1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

     he consumed mechanically a number of slices of bread and whort jam.

   • 1793–1817 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Picture”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC:

     Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood
     I force my way; now climb, and now descend
     O'er rocks, or bare or mossy, with wild foot
     Crushing the purple whorts […]

• “whort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Representing pronunciation.

whort

1. Eye dialect spelling of what.
   • 1898, Barry Pain, The Curick:

     When yer 'asn't gort no work yer doesn't git no pye,
     And when the cash ain't 'andy, then be keerful whort yer sye,

• -worth, Worth, throw, worth, wroth