Gorge vs Mouth - What's the difference?
gorge | mouth | Synonyms |
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.
(anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
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An outlet, aperture or orifice.
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, chapter=1 (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
(saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
(obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
* Addison
(obsolete) Cry; voice.
(obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
* Bible, Matt. xviii. 16
(obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
* Shakespeare
To speak; to utter.
* Hare
To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
(obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
(obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
(obsolete) To make mouths at.
Gorge is a synonym of mouth.
As verbs the difference between gorge and mouth
is that gorge is while mouth is to speak; to utter.As a noun mouth is
(anatomy) the opening of a creature through which food is ingested.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 ?
Anagrams
* English intransitive verbs ----mouth
English
(wikipedia mouth)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs.
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- Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
- (Dryden)
- that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
- Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
- mouthing big phrases
- The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
- The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
- (Dryden)
- (Sir Thomas Browne)