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morgue

noun
/mɔːɡ/UK/moɹɡ/US/mɔː(ɹ)ɡ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

  1. borrowed from morgue

Definitions

  1. A supercilious or haughty attitude

    A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

    • They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.

  2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation,…

    A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

  3. The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

    • Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue
    • Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.

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