dort, n. Sc.
(dɔːt)
[Of obscure origin; derivatives go back to c 1500: see dorty, dortiness.]
Usually in pl.: Sulkiness, ill-humour; sulks.
| 1632 Rutherford Lett. xxiii. (1862) I. 91 Let your soul..take the dorts (as we use to speak). 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i, Then fare ye weel Meg-Dorts. [Cf. Scott St. Ronan's i.] 1823 Misses Corbett Petticoat T. I. 288 (Jam.) Andrew, that left you in the dorts. |
Hence dort v. intr. to become pettish, to sulk; dorted ppl. a., sulky, ill-humoured. (Jam.)