goar
goar is the obsolete form of gore.
Meaning of gore
Noun (1)
gore (usually uncountable, plural gores)
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
- A gout or mass of such blood.
- And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23
- Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
- The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club
- Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
- Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
- As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms
Noun (2)
gore (plural gores)
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related...
- Synonyms:
- neutral area, ghost island
Proper noun capitalized: Goar
Goar (plural Goars)
- A surname from Scots.
Forms of goar
| plural | Goars |
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Origin of goar
From Scots, but the ultimate source is uncertain.
Phrases with goar
Questions about goar
- What does goar mean?
- Goar means a surname from Scots.
- What is goar the obsolete form of?
- Goar is the obsolete form of gore.
- What part of speech is goar?
- Goar is a proper noun.
Words near goar in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: goar (page history and authors); Goar (page history and authors); gore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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