gorger

English

Etymology 1

From gorge +‎ -er.

Noun

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. One who gorges.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:glutton

Etymology 2

Compare gadje.

Noun

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller.
   • 2010, Margaret Greenfields and David Martin Smith, "Housed Gypsy Travellers, Social Segregation and the Reconstruction of Communities", published in Housing Studies volume 25, issue 3 p. 397, April 27, 2010

     "The majority of these young people were interrelated and a number were of 'mixed' Gypsy/gorger (non-Gypsy) ancestry."

Etymology 3

Possibly from gorgeous.

Noun

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man; a swell; sometimes an employer, or principal, as the manager of a theatre.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Gregor

French

Etymology

Denominal verb of gorge (“throat”). gorge +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔʁ.ʒe/

• Audio:

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Verb

gorger

1. to gorge oneself (eat greedily)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gorge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of gorger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gorger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gorgeant /ɡɔʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gorgé /ɡɔʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gorge /ɡɔʁʒ/	gorges /ɡɔʁʒ/	gorge /ɡɔʁʒ/	gorgeons /ɡɔʁ.ʒɔ̃/	gorgez /ɡɔʁ.ʒe/	gorgent /ɡɔʁʒ/
	imperfect	gorgeais /ɡɔʁ.ʒɛ/	gorgeais /ɡɔʁ.ʒɛ/	gorgeait /ɡɔʁ.ʒɛ/	gorgions /ɡɔʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	gorgiez /ɡɔʁ.ʒje/	gorgeaient /ɡɔʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	gorgeai /ɡɔʁ.ʒe/	gorgeas /ɡɔʁ.ʒa/	gorgea /ɡɔʁ.ʒa/	gorgeâmes /ɡɔʁ.ʒam/	gorgeâtes /ɡɔʁ.ʒat/	gorgèrent /ɡɔʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	gorgerai /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	gorgeras /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	gorgera /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	gorgerons /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	gorgerez /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	gorgeront /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gorgerais /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	gorgerais /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	gorgerait /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	gorgerions /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	gorgeriez /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	gorgeraient /ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	gorge /ɡɔʁʒ/	gorges /ɡɔʁʒ/	gorge /ɡɔʁʒ/	gorgions /ɡɔʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	gorgiez /ɡɔʁ.ʒje/	gorgent /ɡɔʁʒ/
	imperfect2	gorgeasse /ɡɔʁ.ʒas/	gorgeasses /ɡɔʁ.ʒas/	gorgeât /ɡɔʁ.ʒa/	gorgeassions /ɡɔʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	gorgeassiez /ɡɔʁ.ʒa.sje/	gorgeassent /ɡɔʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gorge /ɡɔʁʒ/	—	gorgeons /ɡɔʁ.ʒɔ̃/	gorgez /ɡɔʁ.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• se gorger

Further reading

• “gorger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.