blort

See also: Blort

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɔɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔɹt

Noun

blort (countable and uncountable, plural blorts)

1. A snort of liquid from the mouth out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny.
2. (uncommon) The sound of blowing one's nose.
3. (programming, now rare, uncountable) A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
   • 1977, Barbara J. Burian, A Simplified Approach to S/370 Assembly Language Programming, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 312:

     B BLORT ADD BRANCH TO BLORT

   • 1989, Rick Decker, Data Structures, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 34:

     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!!'.

   • 1991, Van Wolverton, Dan Gookin, Supercharging MS-DOS, 3 edition, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 133:

     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.)

   • 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 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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2019 July 29, u/upofadown, “Forth words collisions problem - does it exists?”, in r/Forth‎, Reddit:

     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.

4. (ABDL, chiefly art and comics, uncommon) Indicates the sound of defecation, especially into a diaper.

Verb

blort (third-person singular simple present blorts, present participle blorting, simple past and past participle blorted)

1. (ABDL, ambitransitive, uncommon) To defecate, especially into a diaper.

   Near-synonym: pamper pack

See also

• pamper packing
• pushie