单词 | gorger |
释义 | † gorgern.1 Obsolete. 1. = gorget n.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > neck armour > [noun] collar1297 gorger1300 ventaila1330 gullet?a1400 canel-piecec1425 standard1464 gorget1484 gorgeretc1500 neck-piece1713 hausse-col1821 gorgerin1849 1300 K. Alis. 3636 Of Grece he smot a baroun..Thorugh the gargaze and the gorger. a1400 Coer de L. 321 Hys pusen therwith gan gon... Hys vyser and his gorgere. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. cxx. 63 With his gorgeer was sum time armed the abbot of Chalyt, thi goode patroun seint William. 1460 Lybeaus Disc. 1618 Pysane, aventayle, and gorgere, Fell ynto the felld fer. 14.. Rom. of Monk (Sion Coll. London) (Halliw.) Nowe I wol sey thee of the gorgier, which shoulde kepe the throte-bolle. 2. A wimple, neckerchief; = gorget n.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > clothing for neck and other parts > wimple wimplea1100 barbetc1320 barbc1374 gorgerc1400 gorget?1578 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 957 Þat oþer [lady] wyth a gorger watȝ gered ouer þe swyre. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > neck armour > furnish with neck armour [verb (transitive)] > fasten neck armour on (person) gorgerc1430 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. cxx. 63 Whan suich a man armede him with swich a gorgeer, and gorgered him soo, thou shuldest also fastne on gladiche thi gorgeere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). gorgern.2α. 1700s– gorger, 1800s garger, 1800s– gorjer. β. in sense 2 1800s– gauja, 1800s– gaujo, 1800s– gawja, 1800s– gorgio, 1900s– gorjo. Chiefly British. 1. slang (originally cant). A man; esp. a finely dressed man, a gentleman. Cf. gadgie n. Now rare.In quot. 1783 apparently: spec. a shopkeeper. ΚΠ 1783 ‘T. Johnson’ Phantoms II. xxvi. 205 I was this morning hobbled upon the dobbin rig [footnote stealing ribbons], occasioned by a dead nose or narler [footnote any person that knows or discovers them] coming into the shop, just as I had done about sixty yards, who put the gorger [footnote master of the shop] up to me. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Gorger, a gentleman. A well dressed man. Mung kiddey. Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman. 1892 P. H. Emerson Son of Fens 17 The old gorger used to tell me if I had to go to a fresh piece. 1925 Daily Mail 12 Sept. 8/5 A gorger in my young days was a gorgeously dressed young fellow—a knut, as he was called a few years ago. 1975 P. O'Shaughnessy Market-traders' Argot in Lore & Lang. July 26 Gorger, man. 2. Frequently in form gorgio. In Romani usage: a person who is not Romani; a non-Gypsy. Cf. gadjo n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > Gipsies or Romanies > not gorger1843 gadjo1886 1843 G. Borrow Zincali (ed. 2) I. 34 If the female Gypsy admitted the gorgio to the privilege of the Rom, the race of the Rommany would quickly disappear. 1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xi. 118 The Romany in his tent..can be as courteous as the Gorgio in his castle. 1905 Country Life 18 Feb. 230/1 There were plenty of young gorger sparks ready to pay a good price to join the gipsies and dance with her. 2001 FHM Feb. 85/3 The day of the fight came, with a crowd of 300—travellers, gorgers, other hard men—surrounding the two men in a damp, oil-stained concrete yard. 2016 Economist 24 Dec. 92/1 Pegs..were things the gorgios, or non-gypsies, were thought to want, like fortune-tellings and palm-readings, which after a while became a habit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gorgern.3 1. A person or animal that gorges or eats to repletion; a glutton. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > gluttony > glutton glutton?c1225 glutc1394 globberc1400 glofferc1440 gluttoner1482 gourmanda1492 ravener1496 belly1526 golofer1529 lurcher1530 cormorant1531 flesh-fly1532 full-belly1536 belly-godc1540 flap-sauce1540 gourmander1542 gully-gut1542 locust1545 glosser1549 greedy-guts1550 hungry gut1552 belly-slave1562 fill-belly1563 grand paunch1569 belly-paunch1570 belly-swainc1571 trencher-slave1571 slapsauce1573 gorche1577 helluo1583 gormandizer1589 eat-all1598 engorger1598 guts1598 guller1604 gourmandist1607 barathrum1609 eatnell1611 snapsauce1611 Phaeacian?1614 gutling1617 overeater1621 polyphage1623 tenterbelly1628 gut-head1629 stiffgut1630 gobble-guts1632 gulist1632 polyphagian1658 fill-paunch1659 gype1662 gulchin1671 stretch-gut1673 gastrolater1694 gundy-gut1699 guttler1732 gobbler1755 trencher-hero1792 gorger1817 polyphagist1819 battenera1849 stuff-guts1875 chowhound1917 gannet1929 Billy Bunter1939 guzzle-guts1959 garbage can1963 foodaholic1965 1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 234 Apicius, a name..now synonymous with a Gorger, was the inventor of cakes called Apicians. 1882 G. Allen in Knowledge 30 June 67/1 These gorgers might easily become specialised into a honey-bearing set of insects. Categories » 2. Nautical. ‘A big haul or heavy deck of fish’ ( Cent. Dict.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11300n.21783n.31817 |
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