Holler vs Gorge - What's the difference?
holler | gorge |
A yell, shout.
By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention.
To yell or shout.
To call out one or more words
To complain, gripe
(dialectal, especially, Southern US, Appalachia) .
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.
As verbs the difference between holler and gorge
is that holler is to yell or shout while gorge is .As a noun holler
is a yell, shout or holler can be (southern us|appalachia) (small valley between mountains).As an adjective holler
is (dialectal|especially|southern us|appalachia).holler
English
Etymology 1
American variant of holla, hallo or hollo. Possibly derived from the Irish Gaelic oll-bhĂșir'', pronounced ''h-oll-oor , meaning a terrific yell, a great roar. Cassidy, D: "How the Irish invented Slang", page 179, CounterPunch Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-904859-60-4Noun
(en noun)- I heard a holler from over the fence.
- If you need anything, just give me a holler .
Synonyms
* hollering * cry, outcry * howl * hurl * scream * shoutVerb
(en verb)- You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything.
Synonyms
* shout * See also * See alsoReferences
Etymology 2
Variation of hollow.Adjective
(-)- the holler tree
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 ?