English
Etymology
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
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɹ.i/
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Adjective
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.
Derived terms
Translations
covered with blood, very bloody
- Arabic: دَمَوْي (damawy)
- Bulgarian: кървав (bg) (kǎrvav), окървавен (bg) (okǎrvaven)
- Czech: krvavý (cs), zkrvavený
- Danish: blodig (da)
- Dutch: bloedig (nl), bloederig (nl)
- Finnish: verinen (fi), hurmeinen
- French: sanglant (fr)
- Georgian: სისხლიანი (sisxliani)
- German: blutig (de), blutrünstig (de), mörderisch (de)
- Hungarian: véres (hu)
- Irish: fuilteach
- Italian: cruento (it), sanguinoso (it), sanguinolento (it)
- Latin: cruentus
- Norwegian: blodig (no)
- Plautdietsch: bloodrich
- Polish: krwawy (pl)
- Portuguese: ensanguentado (pt)
- Russian: крова́вый (ru) (krovávyj), окрова́вленный (ru) (okrovávlennyj)
- Spanish: ensangrentado (es), sanguinolento (es), sangriento (es), cruento (es)
- Swedish: bloddrypande (sv)
- Turkish: kanlı (tr), korkunç (tr), ürpertici (tr)
- Ukrainian: крива́вий (kryvávyj)
- Vietnamese: máu me (vi)
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Anagrams
Lower Sorbian
Noun
gory
- superseded spelling of góry