gorse
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gorse
- /ɡɔɹs/ US
- /ɡɔːs/ UK
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)s
Where it comes from
From Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”).
Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compare Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”), whence Proto-Celtic *garwos.
noun gorses
- An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and yellow flowers. The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
