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ort (n.)
"remains of food left from a meal," mid-15c., probably cognate with early Dutch
ooraete
, Low German
ort
, from
or-
, privative prefix, +
etan
"to eat" (see
eat
(v.)). Perhaps from an unrecorded Old English word.
