gorger

gorge +‎ -er

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. One who gorges.

• See Thesaurus:glutton

Compare gadje.

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller.
   • 2010, Margaret Greenfields and David Martin Smith, "Housed Gypsy Travellers, Social Segregation and the Reconstruction of Communities", published in Housing Studies volume 25, issue 3 p. 397, April 27, 2010

     "The majority of these young people were interrelated and a number were of 'mixed' Gypsy/gorger (non-Gypsy) ancestry."

Possibly from gorgeous.

gorger (plural gorgers)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man; a swell; sometimes an employer, or principal, as the manager of a theatre.

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• Gregor

Denominal verb of gorge (“throat”). gorge +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔʁ.ʒe/

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gorger

1. to gorge oneself (eat greedily)

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written gorge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• se gorger

• “gorger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.