单词 | overgorged |
释义 | overgorgedadj. That has been gorged too much. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated full of foodOE surfeitousc1390 repletea1400 satiate1440 fulsome1447 overfed1579 surfeited1584 gorged1594 overgorged1607 gluttoneda1658 saturated1658 throat-full1681 quat?c1730 stalled1740 englutted1814 cloyed1830 stodged1873 1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. K An ouer-gorged Stomack makes An aking Head. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 737 Thieves at home must hang, but he that puts Into his overgorg'd and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. vii. 794 Such as long power and overgorged success Concentrates into all that's merciless. 1871 T. Baines North. Goldfield Diaries 16 Aug. (1946) III. 679 No-one ever saw him drunk, unless a kind of stupor, like that of an overgorged snake, can be called so. 1911 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 75 77 The stove, overgorged with these preposterous sticks, set fire to the panelling. 2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 15 May 15 They are the Eurocrats, the vastly overpaid nomenklatura who are drawn to the overgorged centre of the EU in Brussels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1607 |
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