vore

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vore"

English

Etymology

Clipping of vorarephilia. Sometimes said to be from -vore or carnivore, however most sources (especially furries and other insider groups) cite the word as being derived from vorarephilia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

vore (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang) The genre of creative work appreciated by vorarephiles, involving characters being eaten or swallowed, or any creative works that fall under this category.

   Coordinate terms: soft vore, hard vore

   • 2005, Lord Flame Stryke, “Re: Curious”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):

     Me, I like vore and unbirth. But then, I'm strange […]

   • 2009, Zack Parsons, Your Next-Door Neighbor Is A Dragon, page 211:

     Many of his videos include the classic vore image of a woman's legs in stockings and high heels sticking out of the mouth of one of his monsters […]

Usage notes

• Vorarephilia material can be subcategorized into soft vore (where the victim is merely swallowed whole) and hard vore (involving chewing or mauling).

Derived terms

• anal vore
• vorish
• vorishness
• vorniness
• vorny

Translations

sexual fetish

• German: Vore
• Japanese: 丸呑み (ja) (marunomi)

See also

• absorption
• cumgestion
• disposal
• endosoma
• mawshot
• perma
• pred
• prey
• reformation
• scat
• unbirth
• voracious (often used adjective in self-produced vore content)
• weight gain

Verb

vore (third-person singular simple present vores, present participle voring, simple past and past participle vored)

1. (informal, slang) To consume or to eat (either in general, or chiefly within the context of vorarephilia).
   • 2012 Jan 31, "lucyhotlegs", how can i be vored by plants and stuff like that (on community.secondlife.com)

     how can i be vored by plants and stuff like that

Usage notes

• Usage of the word vore as a verb is often seen as cringeworthy or unserious by many individuals with vorarephilia, who may encourage people to use other verbs denoting eating instead.

Anagrams

• Over, over, over-, rove

Afrikaans

Noun

vore

1. plural of voor

Catalan

Verb

vore

1. (Valencia) alternative form of veure

Cornish

Noun

vore

1. soft mutation of bore

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvorɛ]

Noun

vore

1. vocative singular of vor

Danish

Pronoun

vore (formal, plural, singular common vor, neuter vort)

1. (formal) our/ours, plural of vor

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal (uncommon)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common (noun)	den		dens
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		indefinite	man	en	ens
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoː.rə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: vo‧re
• Rhymes: -oːrə

Noun

vore f (plural voren, no diminutive)

1. alternative form of voor (“furrow”)

Friulian

Noun

vore f (plural voris)

1. work

See also

• opare
• lavôr

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɔre
• Hyphenation: vò‧re

Noun

vore f

1. plural of vora

Anagrams

• ervo, vero

Lithuanian

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋorɛ]

Noun

vóre m

1. vocative singular of voras

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): [ʋɔˈrɛ]

Noun

vorè m

1. locative singular of voras

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch fora, fore, from Proto-West Germanic *forē, from Proto-Germanic *furai.

Preposition

vōre [with accusative or dative]

1. before, in front of
2. before (in time)
3. before, in preference to
4. against (as protection)
5. for, directed at, for the benefit of
6. for, in exchange for

Alternative forms

• vor, vōor

Descendants

• Dutch: voor, vore
  • Afrikaans: voor
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: foro
  • Javindo: foor
  • Negerhollands: voor, fo, for
  • Jersey Dutch: för, f'r
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: voor (dated)
  • Petjo: voor, foor
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: foo, fou
  • → Manado Malay: for
• Limburgish: veur

Adverb

vōre

1. in front
2. before, earlier

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *furo, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs.

Noun

vōre f

1. furrow
2. ditch, trench

Inflection

Weak feminine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	vōre	vōren
accusative	vōre	vōren
genitive	vōre, vōren	vōren
dative	vōre, vōren	vōren

Descendants

• Dutch: voor

Further reading

• “vore (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “vore (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “vore (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vore (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋoːrə/

Participle

vore

1. past participle of vera

Paraguayan Guarani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋoˈɾe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: vo‧re

Noun

vore

1. part
2. portion; piece
3. division

References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “vore”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 114, column 2

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²vuːrɛ/
• Rhymes: -²uːrɛ

Verb

vore

1. past subjunctive of vara; were, would be

   Vore det val idag skulle oppositionspartierna vinna

   If elections were held today [were it election today], the opposition parties would win

   Det bästa vore ju om vi alla kunde enas om det här

   It would be best if we could all agree on this, of course

   Det vore trevligt om ni kunde komma!

   It would be nice if you could come!

   Om det ändå vore så

   If only that were the case [If it only/yet were so]

   • 1891, Gustaf Fröding, “Jag ville, jag vore”, in Guitarr och dragharmonika:

     Jag ville, jag vore i Indialand

     I wished I were in Indialand

   • 1990, Niklas Strömstedt, “Om [If]”, in Om! [If!]‎^[1]:

     Om du var ett hav vore jag en våg. Om du var himmelen skulle jag ha vingar. Om du var ett regn hade jag var't [varit] hav och land. Om du var musik vore jag en sång. Om du var vidderna ville jag va' [vara] vinden. Men jag skulle inte va' [vara] nånting om du inte fanns.

     [Literally translated for illustration – see the link for a more natural translation] If you were an ocean [sea], were I a wave [or "I were a wave" – subjunctive. "Var jag en våg" sounds wrong the way "I was a wave" does here. The tone is just "I would be a wave"]. If you were the sky, I would have wings. If you were a rain, had I been sea and land [subjunctive, everyday – very common with hade (“had”)]. If you were music, were I a song [or "I were a song" – subjunctive. "Var jag en sång" (I was a song) sounds wrong, like above. The tone is just "I would be a song"]. If you were the plains, I wanted to be the wind [somewhat tersely worded here in Swedish as well]. But I would not be anything if you did not exist.

Usage notes

• Everyday word, despite the subjunctive mood being archaic to obsolete otherwise in modern Swedish.
• See the song quotation above for another example of an idiomatic use of vore.

See also

• vare

References

• “vara”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “vara”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “vara”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• revo

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *wafrah (“snow”). Compare Baluchi برپ (barp), Pashto واوره (wāwra), Wakhi ورف (warf), Persian برف (barf).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: vo‧re

Noun

vore f

1. snow

   Synonym: vewre