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Gorged vs Gorget - What's the difference?

gorged | gorget |

As an adjective gorged

is with a stomach stuffed full of food.

As a verb gorged

is (gorge).

As a noun gorget is

(historical) a piece of armour for the throat.

gorged

English

Adjective

(-)
  • With a stomach stuffed full of food.
  • *(rfdate) ,
  • *:Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  • (lb) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (gorge)
  • Anagrams

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    gorget

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A piece of armour for the throat.
  • * 1663 ,
  • About his neck a threefold gorget , / As rough as trebled leathern target
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
  • * 1968 , (Michael Moorcock), The Mad God's Amulet , Gollancz 2003, p. 209:
  • Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget .
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 500:
  • Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
  • (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
  • An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
  • * 1917 , (Washington Irving), :
  • There was
  • (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  • A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
  • (Dunglison)
  • (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * gorget hummer