lirt

Plural: lirts

Verb

To deceive; beguile.
To cheat; befool.
To toss.
To walk or move in a quick, lively, or pert manner.
To gambol; frisk.

Noun

Deception; guile.
A cheat; a go-by.

Origin / 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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