Gorge vs. Gouge

Gorgenoun

(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

Gorgenoun

The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

Gorgenoun

Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

Gorgenoun

(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.

Gorgenoun

(architectural element) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

Gorgenoun

The entrance to an outwork, such as a bastion.

Gorgenoun

(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

Gorgenoun

(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

Gorgenoun

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

Gorgenoun

An act of gorging.

Gorgeverb

To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. on

Gorgeverb

(transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Gorgeverb

(transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

Gorgeverb

(transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

Gorgeadjective

(slang) Gorgeous.

Gorgenoun

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

Gorgenoun

A narrow passage or entrance

Gorgenoun

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

Gorgenoun

A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

Gorgenoun

A concave molding; a cavetto.

Gorgenoun

The groove of a pulley.

Gorgenoun

A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

Gorgeverb

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Gorgeverb

To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

Gorgeverb

To eat greedily and to satiety.

Gorgenoun

a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

Gorgenoun

a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

Gorgenoun

the passage between the pharynx and the stomach

Gorgeverb

overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;

Gorgenoun

a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.

Gorgenoun

the throat.

Gorgenoun

the crop of a hawk.

Gorgenoun

the contents of the stomach.

Gorgenoun

a narrow rear entrance to a bastion, outwork, or other fortification.

Gorgenoun

a mass of ice obstructing a narrow passage, especially a river.

Gorgeverb

eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food

Gougenoun

Senses relating to cutting tools.

Gougenoun

A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.

Gougenoun

A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.

Gougenoun

An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.

Gougenoun

A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.

Gougenoun

An act of gouging.

Gougenoun

(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.

Gougenoun

(slang) An impostor.

Gougenoun

(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.

Gougenoun

Information.

Gougeverb

(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.

Gougeverb

(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.

Gougeverb

To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

Gougeverb

(intransitive) To use a gouge.

Gougenoun

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

Gougenoun

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

Gougenoun

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.

Gougenoun

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.

Gougenoun

The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

Gougenoun

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

Gougenoun

an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Gougenoun

and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

Gougenoun

the act of gouging

Gougeverb

force with the thumb;

Gougeverb

obtain by coercion or intimidation;

Gougeverb

make a groove in