Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which gorges; specifically (nautical), a big haul or heavy deck of fish.
- noun Same as
gorget , 1. - noun A gorget or wimple.
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- noun One who
gorges
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- noun someone who eats food rapidly and greedily
Etymologies
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Examples
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My dad and his people, like generations before and after, were deeply distrustful of what they called the gorger '- you: the non-Romani.
unknown title 2009
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That was the type of person I always was: the obsessive gorger.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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That was the type of person I always was: the obsessive gorger.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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That was the type of person I always was: the obsessive gorger.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Shall we follow each others a steplonger, drowner of daggers, whiles our liege, tilyet a stranger in the frontyard of his happi-ness, is taking, (heal helper! one gob, one gap, one gulp and gorger of all!) his refreshment?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Ernest could never have consented to lot that lazy, overfed, useless encumbrance on a long-suffering commonwealth, that idle gorger of dainty meats and choice wines from the tithes of the tolling, suffering people, bear any part in what was after all the most solemn and serious contract of his whole lifetime.
Philistia Grant Allen 1873
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He lacks the merciless pace of Jermain Defoe and the once masterly control and silky dribbling skills of Romário, the goal gorger dubbed Baixinho - shorty - in Brazil.
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He lacks the merciless pace of Jermain Defoe and the once masterly control and silky dribbling skills of Romário, the goal gorger dubbed Baixinho - shorty - in Brazil.
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He lacks the merciless pace of Jermain Defoe and the once masterly control and silky dribbling skills of Romário, the goal gorger dubbed Baixinho - shorty - in Brazil.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Rob Bagchi 2010
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This how you did, moved by the prate of a friar, who must for certain have been some broth-swilling pasty-gorger, you yourself know; and most like he had a mind to put himself in the place whence he studied to expel others.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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