goirt1, a1. Salt. 1. Saline, salted. Iasc ~, salt fish. Feoil ghoirt, salt meat. Riasc ~, salt marsh, salting. Uisce ~, brackish water. S.a. loch 1(a).2. Bitter. Deora ~e, salt, bitter, tears. Chaoin sí go ~, she wept bitterly. Fig:Arán ~, dearly-earned bread. Is ~ a shaothraigh sé é, he earned it dearly, painfully. Ba ghoirt an lá dúinn é, it was a bitter day for us. 3. Duine ~, poor sort of person; lout.