gorn
/ɡɔɹn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
noun
A work that dwells upon graphic and realistic scenes of sadistic torture, mutilation, vivisection, cannibalism, etc. to the point of being pornographic.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "you know the govner and mater have gorn to Beerits and want us ther too"
- "“Don’t mind ’im, sir,” she advised. “’E’s more’n arf-gorn a’ready, a-’itting the jug every blessed stop.”"
- "evry thing seemed to be all quiet and so to day we have gorn up the river again whar we was before"
- "Well, someone should really make a Wikipedia entry coining the term "gore porn" (or better yet, "gorn"), which perfectly describes the movie version of Silent Hill."
- "Recent works of gorn include the several Saw and Hostel films and The Devil's Rejects (2005). The glorification of blood and gore is not new, but it has only recently entered the mainstream."
- "Perhaps after the spate of Gorn (Gore and porn) and ‘found footage’ movies over the past ten years (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity), the film industry is starting to realise we might be getting desensitized."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɔɹn/
- British English: /ɡɔːn/