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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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From Middle English gorge(“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), [1] a borrowing from Old French gorge(“throat”) (modern French gorge(“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, [2] from Latin gurges(“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), [3] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃-(“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa(“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia(“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja(“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja(“gullet, throat; gorge”). [2]

The verb is derived from Middle English gorgen(“to eat greedily; to gorge”), [4] a borrowing from Old French gorger, gorgier (modern French gorger(“to eat greedily; to gorge”)), from gorge(“throat”); see further at etymology 1. [5]

The noun is derived from the verb. [6]

Clipping of  gorge(ous); originally British slang. 


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gorge (n.)

mid-14c., "throat," from Old French gorge "throat; a narrow passage" (12c.), from Late Latin gurges "gullet, throat, jaws," also "gulf, whirlpool," which probably is related to Latin gurgulio "gullet, windpipe," from a reduplicated form of PIE root *gwora- "food, devouring." Transferred sense of "deep, narrow valley" was in Old French. From 1520s as "what has been swallowed," hence in figurative phrases indicating nauseating disgust.




gorge (v.)

c. 1300, "eat greedily, swallow by gulps," from Old French gorgier "to swallow" (13c.), from gorge "throat" (see gorge (n.)). Transitive sense from late 15c. Related: Gorged; gorging.