gorge
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga, likely connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gorge (plural gorges)
- A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
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1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.
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- The throat or gullet.
- Spenser
- Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
- Shakespeare
- Now, how abhorred! […] my gorge rises at it.
- Spenser
- That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- Spenser
- And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
- 1962, Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, Yearling Books, ISBN 0-440-49805-8, page 187–88:
- Now her worries about Charles Wallace and her disappointment in her father’s human fallibility rose like gorge in her throat.
- Spenser
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
- an ice gorge in a river
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
- (nautical) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook, consisting of an object easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- (heraldry) A whirlpool.
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
TranslationsEdit
deep passage
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gullet
VerbEdit
gorge (third-person singular simple present gorges, present participle gorging, simple past and past participle gorged)
- (reflexive, often followed by on) To eat greedily and in large quantities.
- They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
- To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- Johnson
- The fish has gorged the hook.
- Johnson
- To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
- Dryden
- Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
- Addison
- The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den […]
- Dryden
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to eat greedily
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Etymology 2Edit
Shortened from gorgeous.
AdjectiveEdit
gorge
- (Britain, slang) Gorgeous.
- Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge?
- 2013, Brittany Geragotelis, Life's A Witch
- "Um, Hadley? Don't tell me that's another new outfit. It's totally gorge!” Sofia stopped me in the middle of the hallway to admire the clothes I'd meticulously picked out that morning.
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, likely connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”).
PronunciationEdit
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audio (file)
NounEdit
gorge f (plural gorges)
VerbEdit
gorge
- first-person singular present indicative of gorger
- third-person singular present indicative of gorger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of gorger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of gorger
- second-person singular imperative of gorger
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “gorge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
Middle FrenchEdit
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, likely connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”).
PronunciationEdit
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Audio (Jersey) (file)
NounEdit
gorge f (plural gorges)
Derived termsEdit
- bigorgi (“to slit a throat”)