gore
/ɡoɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.75 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood."
- "The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B."
- "As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell."
- "The bull gored the matador."
- "I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495."
- "With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡoɹ/
- British English: /ɡɔː/