Meaning of slart | Babel Free

Definitions

Leftover(s), especially of food.

England, US, dialectal

Examples

“[…] they must be able to measure⟳ any earth—any inch-space of the heart whatever—else they are mere orts and slarts.”

“MINNIE: […] You kept the solid meal, and the orts and slarts any other woman could have⟳. But I tell⟳ you, I'm not for having the orts and slarts,* and your leavings […] I'll have⟳ a man, or nothing, I will. […] MINNIE: Yes! What did you care about the woman who would have⟳ to take⟳ your sons after you? Nothing! You left her with just the slarts of a man. […] *the leftovers of a meal, often subsequently served up cold”

“In 1700 Swift was hectically cramming his Tub with the orts and slarts of discursivities then à la mode ranging from West-End chic to the hullabaloo of bullies, beggars, and doxies that he had agglomerated "from the Books, Pamphlets, and single Papers, offered us every Day in the Coffee-houses."”

“Existenz, seems to me such a pot au fen of all the others, such a soup of the orts of the past and the future, of the slarts of the mediocre events and despairs of the present⟳, that I do not have⟳ much appetite for it.”

“In focusing on what (to borrow a phrase from D. H. Lawrence) we call⟳ the 'orts and slarts' of various song traditions, we want⟳ to break⟳ the persistent habit of looking at such pieces from the centre outwards, from the full or 'complete⟳' narrative to the 'broken' edges—a habit which, long since[…]”

“CHAPTER. 20. SLARTS! Well, would you look⟳ at that? I still have⟳ some slarts left in my linguistic grab⟳ bag.”

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