English
engorge
Engorge comes from French engorger ‘to clog, clog up, congest’, and goes back to Old French engorgier.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400engorgier
- Frenchc. 1600–presentengorger‘to clog, clog up, congest’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667engorge
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400engorgier
- Frenchc. 1600–presentengorger‘to clog, clog up, congest’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667engorge
Earliest quotation: 1667, John Milton, (please specify the page number): “Greedily she engorged without restraint”.
The story
Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
Every English word from Old French engorgier
Today it means
verb To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French engorgier / engorge