gorged
English
WOTD – 10 June 2007
Etymology
gorge + -ed
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɔːdʒd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɡɔːɹd͡ʒd/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒd
Adjective
gorged (not comparable)
- With a stomach stuffed full of food.
- 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
- Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
- 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
- (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
- Having a gorge or throat.
Translations
with a stomach stuffed full of food
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Verb
gorged
- simple past tense and past participle of gorge
Related terms
- engorged
- gorge
Anagrams
- Dogger, dogger, rogged