gorge

See also: Gorge and gorgé

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɔːdʒ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ

Etymology 1

From Middle English gorge, a borrowing from Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”)

Noun

gorge (plural gorges)

  1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎:
      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.
  2. (fortification) The entrance to an outwork.
  3. The throat or gullet.
    • Edmund Spenser
      Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
    • William Shakespeare
      Now, how abhorred! […] my gorge rises at it.
  4. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
    • Edmund 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, page 187–88:
      Now her worries about Charles Wallace and her disappointment in her father’s human fallibility rose like gorge in her throat.
  5. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
    an ice gorge in a river
  6. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
  7. (nautical) The groove of a pulley.
  8. (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.
  9. (heraldry) A whirlpool.
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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gorgen, a borrowing from Old French gorgier.

Verb

gorge (third-person singular simple present gorges, present participle gorging, simple past and past participle gorged)

  1. (reflexive, often followed by on) To eat greedily and in large quantities.
    They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
  2. To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
    • Johnson
      The fish has gorged the hook.
  3. 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 […]
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References

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Etymology 3

Clipping of gorgeous

Adjective

gorge

  1. (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.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔʁʒ/
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Noun

gorge f (plural gorges)

  1. throat
  2. breast
  3. gorge

Verb

gorge

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gorger
  2. third-person singular present indicative of gorger
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of gorger
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of gorger
  5. second-person singular imperative of gorger

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Noun

gorge f

  1. plural of gorgia

Middle French

Noun

gorge f (plural gorges)

  1. (anatomy) throat

Norman

Etymology

From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Noun

gorge f (plural gorges)

  1. (Jersey, anatomy) throat

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin gurga, connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”).

Noun

gorge f (oblique plural gorges, nominative singular gorge, nominative plural gorges)

  1. throat

Descendants

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