Gord vs Gorp - What's the difference?
gord | gorp |
(obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.
*1985 , , Knopf, ISBN 039454689X, chapter 19,
*:"They were living in their pajamas so as not to have too much laundry. They were eating gorp for their suppers."
*:"I'm not even going to ask what gorp is," Sarah said,
*:"It's a mixture of wheat germ and nuts and dried—"
*1996: Brian M. Parks,
*:...also take some cheese and hard salami and crackers which are normally not contained in gorp' to give even more variety. variety is the key here, and a bag of '''gorp''' curtails this.....unless of course you wish to pack ten different varieties of ' gorp with you :^)
As nouns the difference between gord and gorp
is that gord is an instrument of gaming; a sort of dice while gorp is a loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.As an acronym GORD
is gastro- Oesophageal Reflux Disease.As a proper noun Gord
is a diminutive of the male given name Gordon.gord
English
Alternative forms
* gourdNoun
(en noun)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
gorp
English
Alternative forms
* GORPNoun
(-)gorpin rec.backcountry