gore

gore

See also: göre, gøre, góré, górę, Gore, Göre, and горе

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gô, IPA^(key): /ɡɔː/

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• (General American) enPR: gôr, IPA^(key): /ɡɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: gōr, IPA^(key): /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɡoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Noun

gore (uncountable)

1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
   • 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.

3. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth.
   • 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:

     As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.

Derived terms

• gory

Translations

thick blood

Bulgarian: съсирена кръв f (sǎsirena krǎv) Chinese: Mandarin: 瘀血 (zh) (yūxuè), 淤血 (zh) (yūxuè) Czech: krev (cs) f, sedlá krev f, sražená krev f Finnish: hurme (fi), veri (fi) French: sang coagulé m German: Blut (de) n, geronnenes Blut n Greek: Ancient: βρότος m (brótos), λύθρον n (lúthron), (Epic) ἔαρ n (éar) Icelandic: dreyri m Italian: coagulo (it) m, grumo (it) m, sangue rappreso m Japanese: 血糊 (ちのり, chinori) Latin: cruor m Old English: drēor m Persian: دلمه‎ (fa) (dalame) Polish: (zakrzepła) krew f Portuguese: sangue coagulado m Russian: (запёкшаяся) кровь f ((zapjókšajasja) krovʹ), кровоподтёк (ru) m (krovopodtjók) (bruise, extravasation) Rusyn: спекла кров f (spekla krov) Spanish: sangre cuajada f, sangre de la herida, sangre (es) f, crúor (es) m (poetic) Tamil: குருதி (ta) (kuruti) Turkish: pıhtılaşmış kan, kan (tr) Ukrainian: загусла кров f (zahusla krov) Yakut: бөлүөҕүрбүт хаан (bölüöğürbüt xaan)

Etymology 2

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with the horn.

   The bull gored the matador.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

Translations

to pierce with a horn

Arabic: ينطح‎ Bashkir: һөҙөү (höðöw) Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: пробождам (bg) (proboždam) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: banyegar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 頂／顶 (zh) (dǐng) Czech: nabodnout (cs), nabrat Dutch: spiezen (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: seivästää (fi), lävistää sarvillaan French: encorner (fr) Galician: cornear (gl) German: aufspießen (de), stechen (de) Italian: incornare Polish: bóść (pl) impf, bodnąć pf Portuguese: chifrar (pt), cornear (pt) Russian: бода́ть (ru) impf (bodátʹ), бодну́ть (ru) pf (bodnútʹ) Santali: ᱨᱳᱜ (rok’) Spanish: cornear (es), coger (es) Thai: ขวิด (th) (kwìt) Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎂𐎈 (ngḥ) Vietnamese: húc (vi) Westrobothnian: sting, stikk

Etymology 3

A heraldic gore: argent, a gore gules.

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Noun

gore (plural gores)

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
   • 1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related Geometrics, page 448:

     I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.

   • 2010, John L. Campbell, Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, page 20-5:

     With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.

   • 2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page 10-97:

     Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.

2. (surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
3. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe
4. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.^Wp
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

5. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
6. A projecting point.
7. (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point.

Synonyms

• (triangular piece of land where roads meet): neutral area (US), ghost island (UK)

Translations

triangular piece of land where roads meet

Finnish: tienhaara (fi) French: musoir (fr) m Spanish: cuchilla (es) f

triangular patch of fabric

Arabic: بَنِيقَة‎ f (banīqa) Bulgarian: клин (bg) m (klin) Catalan: gaia (ca) f Finnish: kaistale (fi) French: godet (fr) m German: Gehre f, Zwickel (de) m Italian: gherone (it) m, fortezza (it) f Serbo-Croatian: klin (sh) m, umetak (sh) Spanish: segmento triangular m, gajo (es) m Tagalog: sudya, pagsusudya

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. To cut in a triangular form.
2. To provide with a gore.

   to gore an apron

Anagrams

• Geor., Gero, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, ogre, orge, rego, roge

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Adjective

gore

1. Inflected form of goor

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɔre
• Hyphenation: gò‧re

Noun

gore

1. plural of gora

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Alternative forms

• gare, goore, gour, gower

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔːr(ə)/

Noun

gore (plural gores or goren)

1. A triangle-shaped plot of land; a gore.
2. A triangle-shaped piece or patch of fabric.
3. A piece of clothing (especially a loose-fitting one, such as a coat or dress)
4. (rare) A piece of armour; a mail coat.
5. (rare) A triangle-shaped piece of armor.

Descendants

• English: gore
• Scots: gair

References

• “gōre, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English gor, from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą.

Alternative forms

• gor, gorre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔːr/

Noun

gore (uncountable)

1. Muck, filth, dirt; that which causes dirtiness
2. (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness.
3. (rare) A despicable individual.

Descendants

• English: gore
• Scots: goor, gure

References

• “gōre, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Noun

gore

1. Alternative form of gor

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Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian جوراب‎ (jôrâb).

Noun

gore ?

1. sock
2. stocking

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.rɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɛ
• Syllabification: go‧re

Verb

gore

1. third-person singular present of goreć

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Portuguese

Verb

gore

1. inflection of gorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gora; compare gora (hill).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡôre/
• Hyphenation: go‧re

Adverb

gȍre (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)

1. up, above

   Antonym: dolje/dole

Noun

gȍre f (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)

1. inflection of gora:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Etymology 2

Adverbially used neuter of the adjective gȍrī (“worse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡôreː/
• Hyphenation: go‧re

Adverb

gȍrē (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре̄)

1. worse

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gore (Cyrillic spelling горе)

1. third-person plural present of gòreti

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Shona

Etymology 1

Borrowed from a Khoe language; compare Khoekhoe kurib.

Noun

goré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)

1. year

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

goré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)

1. cloud