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Combe vs Gorge - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between combe and gorge

is that combe is a valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river while gorge is a deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

As a verb gorge is

to eat greedily and in large quantities.

As an adjective gorge is

gorgeous.

combe

English

(wikipedia combe)

Alternative forms

* comb * coomb * coombe

Noun

(en noun)
  • A valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river.
  • * 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
    • its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe .
  • * Southey
    • A gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
  • A cirque.

    • Usage notes

    * Used, especially in South West England, in many placenames ----

    gorge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl), from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
  • * '>citation
  • The throat or gullet.
  • * Spenser
    • Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
  • That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • * Spenser
    • And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
  • A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
    • an ice gorge in a river
  • (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (nautical) The groove of a pulley.

    • Verb

    (gorg)
  • To eat greedily and in large quantities.
    • They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
  • To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • * Johnson
    • The fish has gorged the hook.
  • To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • * Dryden
    • Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
  • * Addison
    • The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
    Derived terms
    * disgorge * engorge

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from gorgeous .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (UK, slang) Gorgeous.
    • Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?

    Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs ----