gore

See also: göre, gøre, góré, górę, Gore, Göre, and горе

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gô, IPA^(key): /ɡɔː/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: gôr, IPA^(key): /ɡɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: gōr, IPA^(key): /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɡoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Noun

gore (usually uncountable, plural gores)

2. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
3. (countable, obsolete) A gout or mass of such blood.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 23:

     And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.

4. Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
   • 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2]:

     The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.

5. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
   • 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:

     As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.

Derived terms

• border gore
• candy gore
• gory

 

Translations

thick blood

• Bulgarian: съсирена кръв f (sǎsirena krǎv)
• Carpathian Rusyn: спекла кров f (spekla krov)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘀血 (zh) (yūxuè), 淤血 (zh) (yūxuè)

• Czech: krev (cs) f, sedlá krev f, sražená krev f
• Finnish: hurme (fi)
• French: sang coagulé m
• Galician: merexo m, cadullo (gl) m, coallo m
• German: Blut (de) n, geronnenes Blut n
• Greek:

  Ancient: βρότος m (brótos), λύθρον n (lúthron), (Epic) ἔαρ n (éar)

• Hungarian: alvadt vér
• Icelandic: dreyri m
• Italian: coagulo (it) m, grumo (it) m, sangue rappreso m
• Japanese: 血糊 (ちのり, chinori)
• Latin: cruor m
• Old English: drēor m
• Persian: دلمه (fa) (dalame)
• Polish: (zakrzepła) krew f
• Portuguese: sangue coagulado m
• Russian: (запёкшаяся) кровь f ((zapjókšajasja) krovʹ), кровоподтёк (ru) m (krovopodtjók) (bruise, extravasation)
• Spanish: sangre cuajada f, sangre de la herida, coágulo (es) m, sangre (es) f, crúor (es) m (poetic)
• Tamil: குருதி (ta) (kuruti)
• Turkish: pıhtılaşmış kan, kan (tr)
• Ukrainian: загусла кров f (zahusla krov)
• Yakut: бөлүөҕүрбүт хаан (bölüöğürbüt qaan)

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cover or smear with blood.

Etymology 2

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk.

   Synonym: horn

   The bull gored the matador.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

   Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab

3. (transitive or intransitive with at, obsolete, figurative) To needle or wound the feelings of.

Derived terms

• whose ox is gored

Translations

to pierce with a horn

• Arabic: ينطح
• Bashkir: һөҙөү (höźöw)
• Basque: adarkatu
• Bulgarian: пробождам (bg) (proboždam)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: banyegar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頂／顶 (zh) (dǐng)

• Czech: nabodnout (cs), nabrat
• Danish: stange
• Dutch: spiezen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: seivästää (fi), lävistää sarvillaan
• French: encorner (fr)
• Galician: cornear (gl)
• German: aufspießen (de), stechen (de)
• Ingrian: puskia
• Italian: incornare
• Polish: bóść (pl) impf, bodnąć pf
• Portuguese: chifrar (pt), cornear (pt)
• Russian: бода́ть (ru) impf (bodátʹ), бодну́ть (ru) pf (bodnútʹ)
• Santali: ᱨᱳᱜ (rok’)
• Spanish: cornear (es), coger (es), empuntar (es), empitonar (es)
• Thai: ขวิด (th) (kwìt)
• Turkish: süsmek (tr), boynuzlamak (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سوسمك (süsmek)

• Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎂𐎈 (ngḥ)
• Vietnamese: húc (vi)

Etymology 3

A heraldic gore (red).

A heraldic gore sinister (red).

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Noun

gore (plural gores)

2. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
   • 1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related Geometrics, page 448:

     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.

   • 2010, John L. Campbell, Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, page 20-5:

     With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.

   • 2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page 10-97:

     Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.

3. (archaic or dialectal) A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
5. (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
6. 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
7. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, etc.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

8. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
9. A projecting point.
10. (heraldry) 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.

Synonyms

• (triangular piece of land where roads meet): neutral area (US), ghost island (UK)

Translations

triangular piece of land where roads meet

• Finnish: tienhaara (fi)
• French: musoir (fr) m
• Spanish: cuchilla (es) f

triangular patch of fabric

• Arabic: بَنِيقَة f (banīqa)
• Bulgarian: клин (bg) m (klin)
• Catalan: gaia (ca) f
• Finnish: kaistale (fi)
• French: godet (fr) m
• German: Gehre f, Zwickel (de) m
• Italian: gherone (it) m, fortezza (it) f
• Serbo-Croatian: klin (sh) m, umetak (sh)
• Spanish: segmento triangular m, gajo (es) m, nesga (es) f
• Tagalog: sudya, pagsusudya

heraldic charge

• French: gousset (fr) m
• Portuguese: nesga (pt) f

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. To cut into a triangular form.
2. To provide with a gore.

   to gore an apron

   • 1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3:

     If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.^[sic]

Anagrams

• Geor., Gero, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, ogre, orge, rego, roge

Albanian

Alternative forms

• gorë

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡoɾe/

Noun

gore f (plural gore, definite gorja, definite plural goret) (regional, southern Gheg, Tirana, derogatory)

1. bitch

   Synonym: bushtër

   si qeni pas gores ― like the dog after a bitch

Declension

Declension of gore

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gore	gorja	gore	goret
accusative		goren
dative	goreje	gores	goreve	goreve
ablative			goresh

References

• “gore”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[3] (in Albanian), 1980
• “gore”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “gore”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 131

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

gore

1. inflection of goor:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Galician

Verb

gore

1. inflection of gorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɔre
• Hyphenation: gò‧re

Noun

gore

1. plural of gora

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Alternative forms

• gare, goore, gour, gower

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔːr(ə)/

Noun

gore (plural gores or goren)

1. A triangle-shaped plot of land; a gore.
2. A triangle-shaped piece or patch of fabric.
3. A piece of clothing (especially a loose-fitting one, such as a coat or dress)
4. (rare) A piece of armour; a mail coat.
5. (rare) A triangle-shaped piece of armor.

Descendants

• English: gore
• Scots: gair

References

• “gōre, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English gor, from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą.

Alternative forms

• gor, gorre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔːr/

Noun

gore (uncountable)

2. Muck, filth, dirt; that which causes dirtiness
3. (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness.
4. (rare) A despicable individual.

Descendants

• English: gore
• Scots: goor, gure

References

• “gōre, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 3

Noun

gore

1. Alternative form of gor

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian جوراب (jôrâb).

Noun

gore ?

1. sock
2. stocking

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.re/

Noun

gore

1. dative singular of gor

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.rɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɛ
• Syllabification: go‧re

Verb

gore

1. third-person singular present of goreć

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English gore.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾi/, /ˈɡɔʁ/ [ˈɡɔh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾi/, /ˈɡɔʁ/ [ˈɡɔh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾi/, /ˈɡɔɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾi/, /ˈɡɔʁ/ [ˈɡɔχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾe/, /ˈɡɔɻ/

Noun

gore m (uncountable)

1. (film) gore; splatter (genre of gory horror)

Adjective

gore (invariable)

1. (film) gore; splatter (genre of gory horror)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɾɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔɾi, (Portugal) -ɔɾɨ
• Hyphenation: go‧re

Verb

gore

1. inflection of gorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gora; compare gora (hill).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡôre/
• Hyphenation: go‧re

Adverb

gȍre (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)

1. up, above

   Antonym: dolje/dole

Noun

gȍre f (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре)

1. inflection of gora:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

• “gore”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Etymology 2

Adverbially used neuter of the adjective gȍrī (“worse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡôreː/
• Hyphenation: go‧re

Adverb

gȍrē (Cyrillic spelling го̏ре̄)

1. worse

Further reading

• “gore”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gore (Cyrillic spelling горе)

1. third-person plural present of gòreti

Shona

Etymology 1

Borrowed from a Khoe language; compare Khoekhoe kurib.

Noun

goré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)

1. year

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

goré class 5 (plural makoré class 6)

1. cloud

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoɾe/ [ˈɡo.ɾe]

Noun

gore m (uncountable)

1. (film) gore; splatter (genre of gory horror)

Adjective

gore (invariable)

1. (film) gore; splatter (genre of gory horror)

Further reading

• “gore”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10