gore
English
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[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gô, IPA(key): /ɡɔː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (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
[edit]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
[edit]gore (usually uncountable, plural gores)
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
- (countable, obsolete) A gout or mass of such blood.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 23:
- And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
- Carnage, bloodshed, murder, 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[2]:
- 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.
- (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
- 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:
- As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
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Verb
[edit]gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)
- (transitive, obsolete) To cover or smear with blood.
Etymology 2
[edit]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
[edit]gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)
- (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk.
- Synonym: horn
- The bull gored the matador.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
- Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab
- (transitive or intransitive with at, obsolete, figurative) To needle or wound the feelings of.
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Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
Noun
[edit]gore (plural gores)
- 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.
- (archaic or dialectal) A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
- (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.Wp
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, etc.
- 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.
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- A projecting point.
- (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
Synonyms
[edit]- (triangular piece of land where roads meet): neutral area (US), ghost island (UK)
Translations
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Verb
[edit]gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)
- To cut into a triangular form.
- To provide with a gore.
- to gore an apron
- 1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3:
- If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.[sic]
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[edit]Albanian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gore f (plural gore, definite gorja, definite plural goret) (regional, southern Gheg, Tirana, derogatory)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “gore”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][3] (in Albanian), 1980
- “gore”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “gore”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 131
Dutch
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Adjective
[edit]gore
- inflection of goor:
Galician
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[edit]gore
- inflection of gorar:
Italian
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[edit]gore
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
Alternative forms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- A triangle-shaped plot of land; a gore.
- A triangle-shaped piece or patch of fabric.
- A piece of clothing (especially a loose-fitting one, such as a coat or dress)
- (rare) A piece of armour; a mail coat.
- (rare) A triangle-shaped piece of armor.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “gōre, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old English gor, from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gore (uncountable)
- Muck, filth, dirt; that which causes dirtiness
- (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness.
- (rare) A despicable individual.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “gōre, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.
Etymology 3
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[edit]gore
- Alternative form of gor
Northern Kurdish
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[edit]Related to Persian جوراب (jôrâb).
Noun
[edit]gore ?
Old English
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[edit]gore
Polish
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[edit]gore
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English gore.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]gore m (uncountable)
Adjective
[edit]gore (invariable)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]gore
- inflection of gorar:
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *gora; compare gora (hill).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]gȍre (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)
Noun
[edit]gȍre f (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)
- inflection of gora:
Further reading
[edit]- “gore”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Etymology 2
[edit]Adverbially used neuter of the adjective gȍrī (“worse”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]gȍrē (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре̄)
Further reading
[edit]- “gore”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]gore (Cyrillic spelling горе)
Shona
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from a Khoe language; compare Khoekhoe kurib.
Noun
[edit]goré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)
Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]goré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)
Spanish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gore m (uncountable)
Adjective
[edit]gore (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- “gore”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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