gore

noun

/ɡɔː/UK/ɡoɹ/US/ɡo(ː)ɹ//ɡɔːɹ/US

Etymology

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

derived from *gʷʰer-✻ — “hot; warm”
inherited from *gurą✻ — “half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”
inherited from *gor✻
inherited from gor — “manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”
inherited from gore

Definitions

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2
A gout or mass of such blood.
- And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
›+ 20 more definitionsshow fewer
1. Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
2. 5
  Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
  - As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
3. To cover or smear with blood.
4. 7
  To pierce with a horn or tusk.
  - The bull gored the matador.
5. To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
6. To needle or wound the feelings of.
7. 10
  A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
  - I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.
  - With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.
  - Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.
8. A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
9. A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
10. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an…
  The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
11. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a…
  A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
12. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
13. A projecting point.
14. A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle…
  A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
15. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit,…
  A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
16. To cut into a triangular form.
17. 20
  To provide with a gore.
  - to gore an apron
18. 21
  A surname.
  - Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.
  - This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee.
19. A male given name transferred from the surname.
20. A place name
  A place name:

The neighborhood

Derived

begore, border gore, candy gore, gorcrow, gorefest, goregrind, gorehound, goreless, goresome, gorhen, gorn, gorno, gory, engore, gorer, whose ox is gored

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gore. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA