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Added 9 October 2026

gore

/ɡɔː/ noun

In Latin: cruor Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about gore at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948).
Coagulated blood from a wound.
A piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails.

verb

Wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument.
Cut into gores.
gore a skirt

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”).

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