Gorge vs Stomach - What's the difference?
gorge | stomach |
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.
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
(informal) The belly.
(obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
* 1613 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. ii. 34:
* John Locke
(obsolete) Appetite.
*, II.ii.1.2:
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , I. ii. 50:
(figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. iii. 36:
To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
(obsolete) To be angry.
(obsolete) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
* 1607 , , III. iv. 12:
* L'Estrange
* Milton
As verbs the difference between gorge and stomach
is that gorge is while stomach is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.As a noun stomach is
an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.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 ----stomach
English
(wikipedia stomach)Alternative forms
* stomackNoun
(en noun)- Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
- He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes;
- This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach , the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
- a good stomach for roast beef
- If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach , let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
- You come not home because you have no stomach'. / You have no ' stomach , having broke your fast.
- I have no stomach for a fight today.
- That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart:
Synonyms
* (belly) abdomen, belly, bouk, gut, guts, maw, tummyDerived terms
* sick to one's stomach * stomach lining * the way to a man's heart is through his stomachDescendants
* stummy, tummyVerb
(en verb)- I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
- I can't stomach her cooking.
- (Hooker)
- O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
- The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
- The Parliament sit in that body to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.