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gorge
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gôj, IPA(key): /???d?/
- (General American) enPR: gôrj, IPA(key): /???d??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?erh?- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”).
Noun
gorge (plural gorges)
- (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
- (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- (architecture, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is 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.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- Synonym: canyon
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
Usage notes
- (food taken into the gullet or stomach): A person's gorge is said to rise (that is, they feel as if they are about to vomit) if they feel irritated or nauseated.
Derived terms
Related terms
- gorget
- gorgeted
Translations
Etymology 2
The verb is derived from Middle English gorgen (“to eat greedily; to gorge”), a borrowing from Old French gorger, gorgier (modern French gorger (“to eat greedily; to gorge”)), from gorge (“throat”); see further at etymology 1.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Verb
gorge (third-person singular simple present gorges, present participle gorging, simple past and past participle gorged)
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [+ on (object)]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- Synonyms: sate, stuff
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- Synonym: engorge
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
gorge (plural gorges)
- An act of gorging.
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of gorge(ous); originally British slang.
Adjective
gorge (comparative more gorge, superlative most gorge)
- (slang) Gorgeous.
Notes
References
Further reading
- canyon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gorge (fortification) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gorge (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gorge at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Grego, Rogge, grego
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????/
Etymology 1
From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”).
Noun
gorge f (plural gorges)
- throat
- breast
- gorge
Derived terms
Related terms
- ingurgiter
- régurgiter
Descendants
- ? Catalan: gorja
- ? Italian: gorgia
- ? Portuguese: gorja
- ? Spanish: gorja
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
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
Further reading
- “gorge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?rd?e
Noun
gorge f
- plural of gorgia
Middle French
Noun
gorge f (plural gorges)
- (anatomy) throat
Norman
Etymology
From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gorge f (plural gorges)
- (Jersey, anatomy) throat
Derived terms
- bigorgi (“to slit a throat”)
Old French
Etymology
From Late Latin gurga, related to Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”).
Noun
gorge f (oblique plural gorges, nominative singular gorge, nominative plural gorges)
- throat
Descendants
- French: gorge
- ? Catalan: gorja
- ? Italian: gorgia
- ? Portuguese: gorja
- ? Spanish: gorja
- ? Galician: gorxa
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gorged
English
Etymology
gorge +? -ed
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???d?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /????d?d/
Adjective
gorged (not comparable)
- With a stomach stuffed full of food.
- 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
- Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
- 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
- (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
- Having a gorge or throat.
Translations
Verb
gorged
- simple past tense and past participle of gorge
Related terms
- engorged
- gorge
Anagrams
- Dogger, dogger, rogged
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