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gore¹

  • /ɡɔː/ UK
  • /ɡoɹ/ US
  • /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
  • /ɡoə/

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

noun gores

  1. uncountable, usually Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  2. countable, obsolete, usually A gout or mass of such blood. And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
  3. uncountable, usually Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence. 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.
  4. uncountable, usually Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
  5. uncountable, usually Dirt, filth, often dung or mud. As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.

verb gores · goring · gored

  1. obsolete, transitive To cover or smear with blood.

gore²

  • /ɡɔː/ UK
  • /ɡoɹ/ US
  • /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
  • /ɡoə/

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

verb gores · goring · gored

  1. transitive To pierce with a horn or tusk. The bull gored the matador.
  2. obsolete, transitive To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
  3. figuratively, intransitive, obsolete, transitive To needle or wound the feelings of.

gore³

  • /ɡɔː/ UK
  • /ɡoɹ/ US
  • /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
  • /ɡoə/

Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

noun gores

  1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet. 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.
  2. archaic, dialectal A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
  3. US A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
  4. 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.
  5. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt. 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.
  6. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  7. A projecting point.
  8. 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.
  9. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.

verb gores · goring · gored

  1. To cut into a triangular form.
  2. To provide with a gore. to gore an apron

Gore⁴

  • /ɡɔːɹ/ US

Where it comes from

From any of various places named Gore, from gore (“a triangular piece of land where roads meet”).

proper noun

  1. A surname. Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.
  4. A territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town; in full, Gore District.
  5. A small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.
  6. Gore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.
  7. A rural community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Charles Stephen Gore.
  8. A township municipality in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Francis Gore.
  9. An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
  10. A township in Huron County, Michigan.
  11. An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
  12. An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
  13. A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.
  14. An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia.

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