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is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | the young of a herring, sprat, or similar fish |
| 2. | minute marine crustaceans, esp copepods, forming food for many fishes and whales |
| [C17: perhaps from Cornish brӯthel mackerel; see | |
| Brit (brɪt) | |
| —n | |
| informal a British person | |
| Brit | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| 1. | Britain |
| 2. | British |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
Brit
U.S. colloquial shortening of Britisher or Briton, 1901, formerly (like Britisher) highly offensive to Englishmen traveling in the States, who regarded it as yet another instance of the "odious vulgarism" of the Americans, but Bret and Bryt were common O.E. words for the (Celtic) Britons and survived
until c.1300. In O.Fr., Bret meant "British, Breton; cunning, crafty; simple-minded, stupid."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| Brit person from Great Britain |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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brit
any of several species of small, slim schooling fish of the family Atherinidae (order Atheriniformes), found in freshwater and along coasts around the world in warm and temperate regions
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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