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Gory

//ˈɡɔɹ.i// adj, name, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered with blood; very bloody.

    "a gory movie"

  2. 2
    Scandalous, and often unpleasant. informal

    "Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces."

  3. 3
    Excessively detailed, often boringly so. figuratively

    "I ask the obligatory questions about how he thought she was doing and if he changed the medicine. I bite my tongue and get all the gory information. She tortures me for a while, knowing what I really want to know. Then I ask the two most important questions about the medication change. In no particular order, “Are we going to get to go to the all you can eat[…]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    covered with blood wordnet
  2. 2
    accompanied by bloodshed wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.

Etymology 2

Reduced form of McGorry.

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