Gorge

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɡɔːdÊ’/
• US IPA: /gɔɹdÍ¡Ê’/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dÊ’

From Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga.

Full definition of gorge

Noun

1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
• 1956, Delano Ames, Crime out of Mind Chapter 7, 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. The throat or gullet.
• SpenserWherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
• ShakespeareNow, how abhorred! ... my gorge rises at it.
3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
• SpenserAnd all the way, most like a brutish beast,
  He spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.
4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.an ice gorge in a river
5. (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
6. (nautical) The groove of a pulley.

Verb

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.
• JohnsonThe fish has gorged the hook.
3. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
• DrydenGorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
• AddisonThe giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood,
  Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den...

Derived terms

• disgorge
• engorge

Shortened from gorgeous.

Adjective

adjective

1. (UK, slang) Gorgeous.Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge?

Anagrams

• grego