gorgeとは

語源 1

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

名詞

gorge (複数形 gorges)

1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     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.

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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.

派生語

語源 2

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

動詞

gorge (三人称単数 現在形 gorges, 現在分詞 gorging, 過去形および過去分詞形 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 […]

派生語

• disgorge
• engorge

参照

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語源 3

Clipping of gorgeous

形容詞

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.

アナグラム

• Grego, Rogge, grego