Georgia vs Gorge - What's the difference?
georgia | gorge |
A country in Caucasus region of Eurasia. Official name: Georgia. Capital: (l).
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* 1949 , Except for Me and Thee , Macmillan (1969), page 9:
A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
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The throat or gullet.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
* Spenser
A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction.
(architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
(nautical) The groove of a pulley.
To eat greedily and in large quantities.
To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
* Johnson
To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
* Dryden
* Addison
(UK, slang) Gorgeous.
As a proper noun georgia
is georgia (country and us state).As a verb gorge is
.georgia
English
(wikipedia Georgia)Etymology 1
Probably from the Persian designation of the Georgians as . In the West, the Persian and Arabic forms has been associated, through folk etymology, with the word (etyl) Georgius, from (etyl) .Proper noun
(en proper noun)Derived terms
* (l)Synonyms
* (l), (l)See also
* * Tbilisi * Georgian SSREtymology 2
Named for of Great Britain.Derived terms
* GA * GeorgianSynonyms
* JawjuhSee also
*Etymology 3
Latinate feminine form of George, from (etyl) .Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Georgia'?" his mother said. "Why in the world would a mother want to give her daughter such an outlandish name?" "It's no more outlandish than Jesse Griffith." "Why, Jesse G., thee's named for thy two grandfathers." "' Georgia' s named for a whole state."
gorge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), fromNoun
(en noun)- Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.
- Now, how abhorred! my gorge rises at it.
- And all the way, most like a brutish beast, / He spewed up his gorge , that all did him detest.
- an ice gorge in a river
- (Gwilt)
Verb
(gorg)- They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake.
- The fish has gorged the hook.
- Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.
- The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, / Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den
Derived terms
* disgorge * engorgeEtymology 2
Shortened from gorgeous .Adjective
(head)- Oh, look at him: isn't he gorge ?