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gore

UK/ɡɔː/ US/ɡɔːɹ/ fairly common us
verb (2) noun (4)

verb

1.
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cut into gores

  • “gore a skirt”

noun

1.

vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)

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the shedding of blood resulting in murder

  • “he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen”
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Origin

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

Phrases

  • border gore
  • candy gore
  • whose ox is gored

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