gorger
1a person or animal that eats greedily and excessively, or that feeds voraciously on a particular thing:My brothers and sisters were all instant-gratification gorgers, and consumed their Halloween candy as quickly as they could.The ladybug is a voracious gorger of aphids.
a person greedy for power, money, etc.:The judgment effectively provides blanket immunity for the many political gorgers who made off with almost $9 billion in "unaccounted-for" taxpayer money.
Origin of gorger
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Often Gorger .Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a Romani term for a person who is not Romani:The fights start when she decides to break with tradition and marry outside the Roma community; her fiancé is a gorger.
Often Gorger .Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a Romani term meaning “non-Romani”:It is sad that relationships between Roma and Gorger communities are so strained where once they would have been quite relaxed.
Origin of gorger
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How to use gorger in a sentence
It could help river advocates fight for cleaner water running through the gorge and should ensure access to the world-class climbing inside the new park boundaries for generations to come.
The wimple or gorger is stated first to have appeared in Edward the First's reign.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey ChaucerEt le plat drle ose appeler trs-clment celui qui fit gorger sous les yeux de Maurice ses quatre fils avant de l'gorger lui-mme.
Walks in Rome | Augustus J.C. Haregorger, a swell, a well-dressed, or gorgeous man—probably derived from the latter adjective.
The Slang Dictionary | John Camden Hotten
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