Meaning of blort | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A snort of mucus or liquid out through the nose, as in response to something unexpected or funny, or the sound of blowing one's nose; also, a sniffle.
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
2. Indicates the sound of defecation, especially into a diaper.
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
3. A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
   archaic, uncountable

Examples

“Beside her, Mistress Weatherwax began to snore again, which Tiffany took to mean that she was in her body. She gave the old woman a nudge, and the sound that had been a regular gnaaaargrgrgrgrg suddenly became blort.”

“"I can't stand it! He can't really mean he doesn't l-l-love me when I love him so much!" she wailed, crumpling to the floor like a discarded doll with complete disregard for her clothes. She blew her nose with musical blorts in between sobs.”

“B BLORT ADD BRANCH TO BLORT”

“In all programming languages in which strings are defined, the underlying set of characters contains not only the letters of the alphabet, but also nonalphabetic characters such as '7' and '+. We will follow the notation used in most languages by enclosing strings in single quotes, so, for example, we can write the strings 'AARDVARK' and '% *blort!!'.”

“In either instance, if a matching password is found by the if command, control branches to the appropriate label, FARKLE or BLORT. (More passwords could be added here.)”

“This example declares an element with a generic identifier of blort. The two minus signs indicate that neither the start-tag nor the end-tag may be omitted (even if the omitted markup could be unambiguously inferred). The keyword ANY signifies that a blort can contain a mix of character data and any element declared in the DTD, in any sequence.”

“This command is exactly the same as running mkdir blort; svn add blort. That is, a new directory named blort is created and scheduled for addition.”

“So we create a vocabulary called foo, define a word called blort in it and then switch back to making word definitions in the default forth vocabulary. When you invoke foo it makes it so the foo vocabulary is searched first before the forth vocabulary.”

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