gorge

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gôj, IPA(key): /ɡɔːdʒ/ (General American) enPR: gôrj, IPA(key): /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ Homophone: gorg === 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 *gʷerh₃- (“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”). Doublet of gour and gurges. ==== 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. (botany) The throat of a flower. 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, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification. (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. (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge. Synonym: gurge ===== 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. [with on] (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 ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== gorge (plural gorges) An act of gorging. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Clipping of gorge(ous); originally British slang. ==== Alternative forms ==== gorg ==== 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “gorge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gorge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Grego, Rogge, grego == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡɔʁʒ/ === Etymology 1 === Inherited 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 ===== Haitian Creole: gòj === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== gorge inflection of gorger: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “gorge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Indonesian == === Etymology === Borrowed from English gorge. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈɡorɡe/ [ˈɡor.ɡe] Rhymes: -orɡe Syllabification: gor‧ge === Noun === gorge (plural gorge-gorge) (geography) gorge (deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides) === Further reading === “gorge”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɔr.d͡ʒe/ Rhymes: -ɔrdʒe Hyphenation: gòr‧ge === Noun === gorge f plural of gorgia === Anagrams === gergo, reggo, rogge == 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 oblique singular, f (oblique plural gorges, nominative singular gorge, nominative plural gorges) throat ==== Descendants ==== French: gorge → Catalan: gorja → Galician: gorxa → Italian: gorgia → Middle English: gorge English: gorge → Portuguese: gorja → Spanish: gorja