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Definition gorge

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)

1. (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
2. (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
3. Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
4. (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
5. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
6. (architecture, fortification) The entrance to an outwork, such as a bastion.
7. (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.
8. (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
9. (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

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)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [+ on (object)]
2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
4. (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.

Noun

gorge (plural gorges)

1. An act of gorging.

Etymology 3

Clipping of gorge(ous); originally British slang.

Adjective

gorge (comparative more gorge, superlative most gorge)

1. (slang) Gorgeous.

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