gorge.
The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
Meaning & usage
The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
The throat of a flower.
Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
My gorge rises at the sight of it.
A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
an ice gorge in a river
A concave moulding; a cavetto.
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.
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.
A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
The groove of a pulley.
A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
Where this word comes from
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.
To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
An act of gorging.
Where this word comes from
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.
Gorgeous.
Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?
Where this word comes from
Clipping of gorge(ous); originally British slang.
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