gorge

Etymology 1
From, a from  (modern 🇨🇬), from , , from , possibly from. The English word is cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1)  The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
 * 2)  The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet;  the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
 * 3) Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
 * 4)  A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
 * 5)  A concave moulding; a cavetto.
 * 6)  The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
 * 7)  A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
 * 8)  A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
 * 9)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
 * 2)  A concave moulding; a cavetto.
 * 3)  The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
 * 4)  A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
 * 5)  A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
 * 6)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
 * 2)  A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
 * 3)  A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
 * 4)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
 * 2)  A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
 * 3)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
 * 2)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  The groove of a pulley.
 * 1)  The groove of a pulley.

Usage notes

 * A person's gorge is said to rise (that is, they feel as if they are about to vomit) if they feel irritated or nauseated.

Translations

 * Danish: strube
 * German: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, gorxipa, gola, gañote,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: гр́ло
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гр̀кљан
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: ; ,


 * Finnish:


 * Albanian: gryka ,
 * Arabic: أُخْدُود
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bau Bidayuh: ribuan
 * Belarusian: яр
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Chamicuro: yeepachajpi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish: kløft, slugt
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: golga, engrobia, engroba, dala, ozca
 * Georgian: ხეობა
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Schluecht
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φάραγξ
 * Hungarian:
 * Iranun: alug
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: curah,, ,
 * Kazakh:, ,
 * Kimaragang: piroong
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: капчыгай
 * Macedonian: клисура, теснец
 * Malay: gaung
 * Maori: kopi, āpiti
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, slukt
 * Nynorsk: kløft, slukt
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز, دره
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schlucht
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Rungus: ruhuk, pansung
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: клѝсура, кла́нац, тѐснац, тјѐснац
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Slovak: roklina, strž
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tarifit: tizi
 * Timugon Murut: lukikib
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: hẻm núi
 * Zazaki: qulek, çalek


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
The verb is derived from, a borrowing from , (modern 🇨🇬), from ; see further at etymology 1.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

 * 1)  To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
 * 2)  To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
 * 3)  To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
 * 4)  To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct;  of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
 * 1)  To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
 * 2)  To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
 * 3)  To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct;  of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
 * 1)  To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
 * 2)  To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct;  of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
 * 1)  To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct;  of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
 * 1)  To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct;  of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
 * 1)  To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct;  of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
 * 1)  To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct;  of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: тъпча се, ям лакомо
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: hltat,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: õgima
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: engulipar, denizar,
 * German: sich vollfressen, sich vollstopfen
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: λαφύσσω
 * Irish: déan anspás
 * Japanese: 食い溜め
 * Korean: 꿀꺽하다,
 * Macedonian: гне́те, се на́сити, се за́сити
 * Maori: apu, apuapu, whāō
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: empanturrar-se de,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: наситити, наситити се, ждерати
 * Roman:, nasititi se,
 * Spanish: se de, se de,, vorar
 * Swedish: proppa i sig
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: же́рти


 * Mandarin:

Noun

 * 1) An act of gorging.

Etymology 3

 * originally British slang.

Adjective

 * 1)  Gorgeous.

Etymology 1
, from, related to.

Noun

 * 1) throat
 * 2) breast

Noun

 * 1)  throat

Etymology
From, from , related to.

Noun

 * 1)  throat

Etymology
From, related to.

Noun

 * 1) throat