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gory

adj
/ˈɡɔː.ɹi/UK/ˈɡɔɹ.i/CA

Etymology

From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.

  1. derived from *gʷʰer-✻ — “hot; warm”
  2. inherited from *gurą✻ — “half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”
  3. inherited from *gor✻
  4. inherited from gor — “manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”
  5. inherited from gore
  6. suffixed as gory — “gore + -y”

Definitions

  1. Covered with blood

    Covered with blood; very bloody.

    • a gory movie

  2. Scandalous, and often unpleasant.

    • Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
    • In no time they fired away all the gory intimate details, down to his rose tattoo.

  3. Excessively detailed, often boringly so.

    • All the gory information is in the footnotes to the financial statements. Under U.S. GAAP, companies are required to disclose information about their accounting choices and their expenses in the footnotes. The notes[…]
    • […] level detail, you may be thinking that all you need is a big, fast DBMS to handle the gory transaction minutiae, and your job is over. Unfortunately, even with […]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Bloody

      Bloody; pesky.

      • "It's like being in a gory squirrel cage with you three going round and round and getting nowhere."

    2. A surname.

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