Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. · A gout or mass of such blood. · Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence. · Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
To cover or smear with blood.
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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