Gorged vs Gorget - What's the difference?
gorged | gorget |
With a stomach stuffed full of food.
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*: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.
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*:“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.
(gorge)
(historical) A piece of armour for the throat.
* 1663 ,
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1968 , (Michael Moorcock), The Mad God's Amulet , Gollancz 2003, p. 209:
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 500:
(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), :
(surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
(zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
(Webster 1913)
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
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*gorget
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(en noun)- About his neck a threefold gorget , / As rough as trebled leathern target
- Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
- Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget .
- Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
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