gore
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gô, IPA(key): /ɡɔː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) enPR: gôr, IPA(key): /ɡɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: gōr, IPA(key): /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɡoə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).
Noun
editgore (uncountable)
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
- Murder, bloodshed, violence.
- 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.
- (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth.
- 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:
- As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).
Verb
editgore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)
- (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with the horn.
- The bull gored the matador.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
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Etymology 3
editFrom Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
Noun
editgore (plural gores)
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- 1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related Geometrics, page 448:
- I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.
- 2010, John L. Campbell, Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, page 20-5:
- With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.
- 2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page 10-97:
- Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.
- (surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe.
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.Wp
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- A projecting point.
- (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fess point, considered an abatement.
Synonyms
edit- (triangular piece of land where roads meet): neutral area (US), ghost island (UK)
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Verb
editgore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)
- To cut in a triangular form.
- To provide with a gore.
- to gore an apron
- 1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3:
- If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.[sic]
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editAlbanian
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editgore f (plural gore, definite gorja, definite plural goret) (regional, southern Gheg, Tirana, derogatory)
Declension
editReferences
edit- “gore”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][2] (in Albanian), 1980
- “gore”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “gore”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 131
Dutch
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editAudio: (file)
Adjective
editgore
- inflection of goor:
Galician
editVerb
editgore
- inflection of gorar:
Italian
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editgore
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
edit- A triangle-shaped plot of land; a gore.
- A triangle-shaped piece or patch of fabric.
- A piece of clothing (especially a loose-fitting one, such as a coat or dress)
- (rare) A piece of armour; a mail coat.
- (rare) A triangle-shaped piece of armor.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “gōre, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.
Etymology 2
editInherited from Old English gor, from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą.
Alternative forms
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editNoun
editgore (uncountable)
- Muck, filth, dirt; that which causes dirtiness
- (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness.
- (rare) A despicable individual.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “gōre, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.
Etymology 3
editNoun
editgore
- Alternative form of gor
Northern Kurdish
editEtymology
editRelated to Persian جوراب (jôrâb).
Noun
editgore ?
Polish
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editgore
Portuguese
editEtymology 1
editUnadapted borrowing from English gore.
Pronunciation
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Noun
editgore m (uncountable)
Adjective
editgore (invariable)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
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Verb
editgore
- inflection of gorar:
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Slavic *gora; compare gora (hill).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editgȍre (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)
Noun
editgȍre f (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)
- inflection of gora:
Further reading
edit- “gore” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Etymology 2
editAdverbially used neuter of the adjective gȍrī (“worse”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editgȍrē (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре̄)
Further reading
edit- “gore” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editgore (Cyrillic spelling горе)
Shona
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from a Khoe language; compare Khoekhoe kurib.
Noun
editgoré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)
Etymology 2
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editgoré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgore m (uncountable)
Adjective
editgore (invariable)
Further reading
edit- “gore”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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