Noun: gorxa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | gorxa |
| Plural f | gorxas |
Sample Sentences
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A muller do Serafiño
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Por unha pinga rabéa,
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Quérea de cote a probiña,
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E se non bebe, toléa.
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Parece un longo varal,
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tratándose de viño,
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Gorxa tan ancha ela mostra
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Com’a canle dun bô muíño.
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Pro, se non vai por azumbres,
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Logo dí qu’é pouquiniño. (Serafin's wife
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for a drop rages;
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she wants it all the time, poor thing,
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and if she doesn't drink she goes mad.
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She seems a long rod,
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but when it is about wine,
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she shows a gorge as wide
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as the flume of a good mill.
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But, if it doesn't come by gallons,
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soon she said that it is too little.) [c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:]
Nouns inflected like gorxa
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, likely connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”). See: Latin Nouns '
gurges'.
Verbs referencing "gorxa"
English Nouns
gorge.
Translations