How well do you know your dictionary?? Day 1

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Ort
Noun (awrt)

Meaning: a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. Usually, orts

 Quotes
... the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
-- George Eliot, Silas Marner, 1861
ORIGIN
Ort entered English in the 1400s. Low German ort and early Dutch oorete are cognates

Throttlebottom
Noun (THROT-l-bot-uh m)

Meaning: (sometimes lowercase) a harmless incompetent in public office
Quotes
If there was one function that any vice president, even a Throttlebottom, could be expected to perform it was to represent the president and the country at funerals of notables abroad.
-- Carl Solberg, Hubert Humphrey: A Biography, 1984
ORIGIN
The term Throttlebottom was formed after the character Alexander Throttlebottom in the musical comedy Of Thee I Sing (1932)

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