pirot

Introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, who took the word from Rudolf Carnap's example sentence "Pirots karulize elatically".

pirot (plural pirots)

1. (philosophy) A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
   • 1988, Richard E. Grandy, ‎Richard Warner, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality (page 31)

     Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).

   • 2005, S. Chapman, Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist (page 123)

     Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.

• wug

• Hyphenation: pi‧rot
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾot/

pírot (intensified piroton)

1. (Partido, Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) sleepy; drowsy

   Synonym: tungka

• Hyphenation: pi‧rot
• IPA^(key): /piˈɾot/, [pɪˈɾ̪ut̪]

pirót

1. the golden-headed cisticola (Cisticola exilis)
2. a small girl or a petite woman

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pirot.

pirot m (plural pirots)

1. Alternative form of pithot

• Hyphenation: pi‧rot
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾot/, [ˈpi.ɾot]

pirot

1. act of pinching and twisting with fingers (e.g. a moustache)

   Synonyms: kirot, pingal, piral, pirat