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gorged adjective [ ɡɔːdʒd ]

• having the neck encircled by a coronet or collar, especially one of a specified tincture.
Origin: early 17th century: from French gorge ‘throat’ + -ed1.

gorge verb

• eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food.
• "they gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas"
Similar: stuff, cram, fill, glut, satiate, sate, surfeit, overindulge, overfill, overeat, pig, eat greedily/hungrily, guzzle, gobble, bolt, gulp (down), swallow hurriedly, devour, wolf, binge-eat, tuck into, put/pack away, demolish, polish off, scoff (down), down, stuff (down), murder, shovel down, stuff one's face (with), nosh, gollop, shift, gorb, scarf (down/up), snarf (down/up), inhale, raven, gluttonize, gourmandize, ingurgitate,
Opposite: nibble,
Origin: Middle English (as a verb): from Old French gorger, from gorge ‘throat’, based on Latin gurges ‘whirlpool’. The noun originally meant ‘throat’ and is from Old French gorge ; gorge (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 18th century.


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