gorin.1
/ɡɒˈriː/ A forked stick used by Arabian slave traders to fasten slaves together by their necks. Also gori-stick.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the neck > stick for slaves
gori1865
taming-stick1866
slave-fork1883
slave-stick1899
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi v. 137 ‘Goree’, or Slave-stick.
1891 Life & Work May [4] This boy..worked in a gore-stick for two years.
1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 243 Uledi and certain men came down..from the Unango country, bringing with them people tied in gori-sticks.
1921 W. P. Livingstone Laws of Livingstonia iii. ix. 213 The slaves..fastened with chains or the gori stick.
1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 276/2 The young ones already had their necks in the goree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
goriadj.n.2
/ˈɡɔːri/, U.S. /ˈɡɔri/, Indian English /ˈɡoːri/ South Asian (chiefly colloquial).
A. adj.
Relating to or designating a white woman or girl, or a relatively light-skinned South Asian woman or girl. Cf. gora adj.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [adjective]
European1666
white1726
whitey1798
Caucasian1807
paleface1830
blue-eyed1838
papalagi1844
Caucasic1890
Caucasoid1902
ofay1911
leucoderm1924
pinko-grey1924
pink1930
ladino1934
mzungu1961
honky1967
mlungu1973
umlungu1976
palagi1977
1967 G. S. Aurora New Frontiersmen 155 ‘She is a “gori white girl”,’ they all say. ‘No one can tell her from an English girl.’
1992 Pioneer on Sunday (Delhi) 13 Sept. 2/3 (advt.) Match for Lucknow based, gori, Kayastha girl, M.Sc., Ph.D, scientist, central govt.
2020 @angryparatha 39 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Mar. 2022) Maybe she'll be slightly less eager to dismiss some issues present here that her gori eyes cannot see.
B. n.2
A white woman or girl, or a relatively light-skinned South Asian woman or girl. Cf. gora n.2
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > white woman
squaw1642
memsahib1832
inkosikazi1835
pink toe1930
gringa1956
1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses iv. 207 He had recently shacked up with a gori.
2000 A. Chandola Discovering Brides (e-book, accessed 15 Mar. 2022) xx. 331 I have heard many Hindi movie songs in which a gori is in love.
2021 @jesperr14 18 May in twitter.com (accessed 10 Mar. 2022) Tryna explain to this gori what karak chai is.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022; most recently modified version published online January 2023).
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