gore

See also: göre, gøre, góré, górę, Gore, and Göre

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English gor, gore, gorre, from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; feces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”) .

Noun

gore (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Fisher to this entry?)
  2. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  3. 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:
      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.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from gore (“a projecting point”), or ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz. Related to gar.

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

  1. (of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
    The bull gored the matador.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Noun

gore (plural gores)

  1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
  2. 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.
  3. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  4. A projecting point.
  5. (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
Translations

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

  1. To cut in a triangular form.
  2. To provide with a gore.
    to gore an apron

Anagrams

Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian جوراب‎ (jôrâb).

Noun

gore ?

  1. sock
  2. stocking

Portuguese

Verb

gore

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of gorar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of gorar
  3. third-person singular imperative of gorar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gora compare gora (hill).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡôre/
  • Hyphenation: go‧re

Adverb

gȍre (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)

  1. up, above

Antonyms

Noun

gȍre f (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)

  1. genitive singular form of gora
  2. nominative plural form of gora
  3. accusative singular form of gora
  4. vocative singular form of gora

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡôreː/
  • Hyphenation: go‧re

Adverb

gȍrē (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре̄)

  1. worse
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