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mort, moirt noun wife; woman, girl: He says to me, ‘Ye got a mort?’; ‘Aye, aye, it’s my wife’. 19-. etymology: Romany ‘woman or concubine’ and Cant; also collected by EMcC/PS and RD; moirt form also attested by Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by three of his informants; attested by SR, BS in TDITA, JS, SS and DW note:

Lexicon Balatronicum (1811) ‘a woman a wench; a yeoman’s daughter’, and also by Gorse and Egan (1823).