gorged
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Adjective[edit]
gorged (not comparable)
- With a stomach stuffed full of food.
- (Can we date this quote?) 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.
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1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), 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—!"
- (Can we date this quote?) O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
- (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
- Having a gorge or throat.
Verb[edit]
gorged
- simple past tense and past participle of gorge