Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCovered with blood; very bloody. · Scandalous, and often unpleasant. · Excessively detailed, often boringly so. · Bloody; pesky.
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.
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- Cognate mentiongorryenm · muddy
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