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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɔːɡ/
• (General American) IPA: /moɹɡ/, [mo̞ɹɡ]
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /mɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡ

名詞

morgue (plural morgues)

1. (archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 34:

     They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.

2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

   Coordinate terms: deadhouse, mortuary

3. (archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
   • 1921 July 2, Joseph F. Kwapil, Fourth Estate, page 5:

     Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 109:

     Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.

派生語

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “morgue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.