Gorger, subs. (vulgar).—1. A voracious eater; a scruncher (q.v.). Rotten gorger = a lad who hangs about Covent Garden eating refuse fruit.
2. (common).—A well-dressed man; a gentleman. [Gypsy, gorgio = gentlemen.] Fr., un gratiné.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. Mung the gorger; beg child beg, of the gentleman.
3. (common).—An employer; a principal: especially the manager of a theatre. [Perhaps because he takes (or gorges) all the fat (q.v.).] Also cully-gorger. Fr., amendier.
1872. M. E. Braddon, Dead Sea Fruit, ch. xiv. The gorger’s awful coally on his own slumming, eh?… I mean to say that our friend the manager is rather sweet upon his own acting.
4. (old).—A neckerchief. [From gorge = throat.]
1320–30. Gawaine, 957. That other wyth a gorger watz gored ouer the swyre.
Gorgonzola Hall, subs. phr. (Stock Exchange).—Formerly the New Hall; now the corporation generally. [From the colour of the marble.]
1887. Atkin, House Scraps, Gorgonzola Hall got turned into New Billingsgate.
Gorm, verb. (American University).—To gorge (q.v.). For synonyms, see Wolf.