gory
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gory (comparative gorier, superlative goriest)
- Covered with blood; very bloody.
- a gory movie
- (informal) Unpleasant.
- Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
Translations
[edit]covered with blood, very bloody
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unpleasant — see unpleasant
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Anagrams
[edit]Lower Sorbian
[edit]Noun
[edit]gory
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