Definition of "whort" [whort]

• The whortleberry or its fruit. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Funny that, just a few whort years ago, it was our side saying: “We will not let this nation and what it stands for be destroyed from within by people who embrace the evils of Fascism/Totalitarianism/Neo-Conservatism.”"
• "But the tea and the bread and butter and the whort jam were like no food on earth."
• "That good lady was alone, and after a few civilities Mr. Lewisham opened his Shakespeare and read from a mark onward — that mark, by-the-bye, was in the middle of a scene — while he consumed mechanically a number of slices of bread and whort jam."