gorged

English

WOTD – 10 June 2007

Etymology

gorge +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɔːdʒd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɔːɹdʒd/

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Adjective

gorged (not comparable)

1. 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, Robert William 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—!"

2. (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
3. Having a gorge or throat.

Translations

with a stomach stuffed full of food

• Latin: fartus

Verb

gorged

1. simple past tense and past participle of gorge

Related terms

• engorged
• gorge

Anagrams

• Dogger, dogger, rogged