gorged en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From gorge + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) With a stomach stuffed full of food.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen:
- (not-comparable) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
- (not-comparable) Having a gorge or throat.
Deriveds
Translations (1)
la fartus (with a stomach stuffed full of food)