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gory¹

  • /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/ UK
  • /ˈɡɔɹ.i/ Canada, US

Rhymes with -ɔːɹi

Where it comes from

From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.

adjective gorier · goriest

  1. Covered with blood; very bloody. a gory movie
  2. informal Scandalous, and often unpleasant. Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
  3. figuratively Excessively detailed, often boringly so. I ask the obligatory questions about how he thought she was doing and if he changed the medicine. I bite my tongue and get all the gory information. She tortures me for a while, knowing what I really want to know. Then I ask the two most important questions about the medication change. In no particu
  4. dated, slang Bloody; pesky. "It's like being in a gory squirrel cage with you three going round and round and getting nowhere."

Gory²

Where it comes from

Reduced form of McGorry.

proper noun Gorys

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: bloody, bloodstained, sanguinary, sanguineous, butcherly, slaughterous, sanguine, deadly, gori, culloden, blood-and-gutsy, ensanguinated, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, purple, bloodyminded

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adj covered with blood, very bloody

Españolensangrentado, sanguinolento, sangriento, cruento
Portuguêsensanguentado
Françaissanglant
Deutschblutig, blutrünstig, mörderisch
Italianocruento, sanguinoso, sanguinolento
Русскийкрова́вый krovávyj, окрова́вленный okrovávlennyj
Tiếng Việtmáu me
العربيةدَمَوْي damawy

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@misc{gory_2026,
  title = {gory},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gory},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}