morgue

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɔːɡ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /moɹɡ/, [mo̞ɹɡ]
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /mɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡ

morgue (plural morgues)

1. (archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 34:

     They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.

2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
3. (archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

   Kwapil, Joseph F. (2 July 1921) "Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue", Fourth Estate page 5.

• (place for corpses): See mortuary
• deadhouse

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “morgue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁɡ/

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morgue f (plural morgues)

1. morgue, mortuary (place where dead bodies are stored)
2. morgue, coldness, disdain, arrogance (supercilious attitude)

• → Portuguese: morgue
• → Turkish: morg

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

• Hyphenation: mor‧gue

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Borrowed from French morgue.[1]

morgue m (plural morgues)

1. morgue

   Synonym: necrotério

morgue

1. inflection of morgar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French morgue.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾɡe/ [ˈmoɾ.ɣ̞e]
• Rhymes: -oɾɡe
• Syllabification: mor‧gue

morgue f (plural morgues)

1. morgue

• “morgue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014