different between gorget vs gorger

English

Etymology

From Old French gorgete, from gorge (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????d??t/

Noun

gorget (plural gorgets)

1. (historical) A piece of armour for the throat.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2

     About his neck a threefold gorget, / As rough as trebled leathern target

   • 1968, Michael Moorcock, The Mad God's Amulet, Gollancz 2003, p. 209:

     Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget.

   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 500:

     Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.

2. (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
3. An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
4. (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
5. A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

6. (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
7. (Britain, dialect, Cornwall) A hake caught in a net set for other fish.

Derived terms

• gorget hummer
• gorgeted

Translations

English

Etymology 1

gorge +? -er

Noun

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. One who gorges

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:glutton

Etymology 2

Compare gadje.

Noun

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller
   • 2010, Margaret Greenfields and David Martin Smith, "Housed Gypsy Travellers, Social Segregation and the Reconstruction of Communities", published in Housing Studies volume 25, issue 3 p. 397, April 27, 2010

     "The majority of these young people were interrelated and a number were of 'mixed' Gypsy/gorger (non-Gypsy) ancestry."

Anagrams

• Gregor

French

Etymology

From gorge (“throat”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?e/

Verb

gorger

1. to gorge oneself (eat greedily)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gorge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Derived terms

• se gorger

Further reading

• “gorger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).