gory

FREQ #23585

a. 血淋淋的, 满是血的, 血污的

发音

UK /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/
CA /ˈɡɔɹ.i/
US /ˈɡɔɹ.i/

词形变化

gorier 比较级 gorier goriest goriest 最高级

别名

goary

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Covered with blood; very bloody.

    a gory movie

  2. 2.

    Scandalous, and often unpleasant.

    非正式

    Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.

  3. 3.

    Excessively detailed, often boringly so.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    Bloody; pesky.

    过时 俚语

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "It's like being in a gory squirrel cage with you three going round and round and getting nowhere."

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词源

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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