morguen.¹

Brit.

/mɔːɡ/, U.S.

/mɔrɡ/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French morgue.

Etymology: < Middle French, French morgue haughty demeanour (1538), countenance (mid 15th cent.) < Middle French morguer to treat with arrogance (first attested 1575 but Trésor de la langue française s.v. suggests probably introduced to French in mid 15th cent. at the end of the Hundred Years War), probably < a verbal base (formed with post-classical Latin -icare or its reflex) cognate with Old Occitan mor , more muzzle, snout (see morfound v.). Compare morgue n.²

A haughty demeanour; haughty superiority; pride, arrogance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > [noun]

highnesseOE

orgelnessOE

orgelOE

orgula1200

hautainesse1297

deignoushedec1330

daina1400

hautesse1399

hautainetya1450

orgulitya1470

courage1484

haughtness1489

stateliness1509

stomacha1513

heighta1525

stiffness1526

fastidie1536

disdainfulness1548

loftiness1548

fastidiousness?1555

haughtiness1555

high-mindedness1571

squeamishness1580

hichtiness1596

morguec1598

signory1598

superciliosity1606

overliness1610

superciliousness1622

excelsity1623

hauteura1628

cavalierism1643

supercilium1657

condescendency1667

supercile1679

uncondescension1681

superbness1682

fastidiosity1704

condescension1752

aristocratism1792

aristocracy1822

patricianism1826

touch-me-not-ishness1836

cavalierishness1860

patronization1944

c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 180 Nather looking sillelie lyke a stupide pedante, nor unsetledlie uith ane unkouth morgue, lyke a neu come ouir caualier.

1614 P. Forbes Def. Lawful Calling 65 A vaine..bravado, which to offer vs with a newe and high morgue, our adversaries have newlie bene animated, by their late supplement of fresche forces from beyond sea.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vi. 150 Prudence..induced him to wave the morgue, or haughty superiority of a knight and noble towards an inferior personage.

1863 M. Arnold Let. 2 Dec. An amiable family, and with nothing at all of the English morgue.

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 59 That official morgue, that narrow and unsympathetic self-satisfaction which has done us such incalculable harm in our dealings with other races.

1909 Cambr. Mod. Hist. XI. ii. 39 The whole reputation for probity upon which this French middle class Government prided itself, which reputation Guizot's morgue had largely helped to preserve, collapsed.

1969 P. Anderson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 233 The famous morgue and truculence of Wittgenstein, Namier or Popper, expressed their inner confidence of superiority.

1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute i. 24 Men..whose open, friendly expressions quite lacked the self-consciousness, self-satisfaction and morgue sometimes to be seen in soldiers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

morguen.²

Brit.

/mɔːɡ/, U.S.

/mɔrɡ/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French morgue.

Etymology: < French morgue, specific sense development of Middle French morgue morgue n.¹ The sense development in French proceeds from the sense ‘place in a prison where the guards examine new prisoners before locking them up’ (1611, probably with reference to the haughty expression of the jailers; slightly earlier in figurative use), to the sense ‘place where unidentified bodies are displayed’ (1674), and subsequently, probably after English, ‘hospital mortuary’ (recorded in French in this sense only from 1942).

a. Originally (usually as the Morgue): a building in Paris in which the bodies of people found dead were kept until identified (now historical). Subsequently (originally U.S.): any building or room (as in a hospital) used for the hygienic storage of corpses prior to examination or disposal; a mortuary. Also figurative.The Paris Morgue was situated at the eastern end of the Ile de la Cité. It replaced the old Basse-Geôle, part of the Grand Châtelet (demolished in 1801), which overlooked the Pont au Change.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > mortuary > mortuary for identification

the Morgue1795

1795 Impartial Hist. Fr. Revol. I. 92 They went with them to the Palais Royal, and afterwards carried them to the Morgue.

1821 Sporting Mag. 8 69 ‘The Morgue’ where those who die by accident or self-murder are carried—a small building in Paris.

1833 Edinb. Rev. July 348 The keeper of the dead-house or Morgue of Drontheim.

1836 G. W. Haven tr. H. Heine Lett. Hist. Mod. Polite Lit. in Germany 27 Literary history! It is a vast morgue [Ger. Morgue], where each seeks out the friend whom he most loved.

1850 H. C. Lewis Odd Leaves Life Louisiana Swamp Doctor 134 The morgue in this institution [sc. a hospital], was directly under the lecture room.

1887 Catholic World Nov. 176 Nuns of the same rule..bound themselves by a special vow, besides attending to the burial of unclaimed corpses at the Morgue.

1909 E. V. Lucas Wanderer in Paris iv. 54 A small official-looking building at the extreme east end of the Ile de la Cité..is the Morgue..now closed to idle gazers.

1946 Sci. Digest Aug. 28/2 Grim statistics from the morgue prove that the great majority of those who are overweight die long before the average.

1978 R. Cobb Death in Paris ii. v. 92 The new Morgue had itself become a favourite excursion for a Sunday walk,..at least among middle-class families.

1987 E. Leonard Bandits iv. 46 The girl..would be on the top floor of the infirmary... That's where the morgue was.

b. In extended use: any repository of unwanted, forgotten, or discarded things; a gloomy, cheerless place.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing

darkOE

unmerryOE

deathlyc1225

dolefulc1275

elengec1275

dreicha1300

coolc1350

cloudyc1374

sada1375

colda1400

deadlya1400

joylessc1400

unjoyful?c1400

disconsolatea1413

mournfula1425

funeralc1425

uncheerfulc1449

dolent1489

dolesome1533

heavy-hearted1555

glum1558

ungladsome1558

black1562

pleasureless1567

dern1570

plaintive?1570

glummish1573

cheerless1575

comfortless1576

wintry1579

glummy1580

funebral1581

discouraging1584

dernful?1591

murk1596

recomfortless1596

sullen1597

amating1600

lugubrious1601

dusky1602

sable1603

funebrial1604

damping1607

mortifying1611

tearful?1611

uncouth1611

dulsome1613

luctual1613

dismal1617

winterous1617

unked1620

mopish1621

godforsaken?1623

uncheerly1627

funebrious1630

lugubrous1632

drearisome1633

unheartsome1637

feral1641

drear1645

darksome1649

sadding1649

saddening1650

disheartening1654

funebrous1654

luctiferous1656

mestifical1656

tristifical1656

sooty1657

dreary1667

tenebrose1677

clouded1682

tragicala1700

funereal1707

gloomy1710

sepulchrala1711

dumpishc1717

bleaka1719

depressive1727

lugubre1727

muzzy1728

dispiriting1733

uncheery1760

unconsolatory1760

unjolly1764

Decemberly1765

sombre1768

uncouthie1768

depressing1772

unmirthful1782

sombrous1789

disanimating1791

Decemberish1793

grey1794

uncheering1796

ungenial1796

uncomforting1798

disencouraginga1806

stern1812

chilling1815

uncheered1817

dejecting1818

mopey1821

desponding1828

wisht1829

leadening1835

unsportful1837

demoralizing1840

Novemberish1840

frigid1844

morne1844

tragic1848

wet-blanketty1848

morgue1850

ungladdeneda1851

adusk1856

smileless1858

soul-sick1858

Novemberya1864

saturnine1863

down1873

lacklustre1883

Heaven-abandoneda1907

downbeat1952

doomy1967

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > anything like or used as

grave1559

tomb?1566

morgue1850

1850 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Representative Men vii. 284 I join Napoleon with him, as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions.

1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 789/1 A modest circuit lawyer in Maine's northern counties wrote two five-act tragedies that have been consigned to the morgue of American blank verse.

1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 91 The room..was filled with objects..which possessed that quality of veteran prostitutes:..—a room apparently exhumed from a theatrical morgue and rented intact.

1968 S. L. Elliott Rusty Bugles i. iv, in E. Hanger 3 Austral. Plays 64 Hey.., come on... I'll give you a game of billiards. Let's get out of this morgue.

1998 T. Hughes Birthday Lett. (1999) 154 The funeral of colour and light and Life! London a morgue of dinge—English dinge.

2. slang.

a. In a newspaper office: a collection of miscellaneous material relating to people still living, assembled for use in future obituaries; the department in which this material is kept.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > copy > collection of obituaries

morgue1903

1903 E. L. Shuman Pract. Journalism 103 This can be done with the aid of the ‘morgue’ or cabinet of biographical and obituary materials that is maintained in every wide-awake newspaper office.

1925 B. Benefield Chicken-wagon Family 94 I have written a column of assorted obituaries after having dug up enough material in the ‘Transcript's’ ‘morgue’ for six columns.

1951 A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars xi. 136 In a score of newspaper offices, the copy culled from the Morgue began to be set up in type.

1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xviii. 187 The Banner morgue was unusually comprehensive, and it contained some interesting material about Haynes.

b. More generally: an archive or library of cuttings, photographs, or other reference material (sometimes including sense 2a); the office or department in which this material is kept.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept

registery1483

chancery1523

registry1531

cartuary1539

cartulary?1541

arches1626

archive1645

record office1647

tabulary1656

registry office1720

registrature1762

dufter1791

records department1825

PRO1892

morgue1914

1914 Jrnl. Proc. 52nd Ann. Meeting National Educ. Assoc. U.S. 811 The scrapbook is one of the most honored of all books in the library, but the ‘morgue’ as a department of the library has not as yet received the attention which it deserves.

1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made viii. 200 To make sure that the details are true, a studio has filed away in its morgue photographs of the life it wishes to depict.

1937 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 148/2 Beside his [sc. Jack London's] California laurel desk, with its oil burning..lamp..is preserved his neat ‘morgue’, as writers call their reference library.

1962 Listener 12 July 57/1 Cartoonists in the United States rely for day-to-day material on newspaper morgues and wire-photographs.

1972 Times 16 May (Wall Street Suppl.) p. vii/2 Over to the New York Times for background material from their morgue: yes, the library is officially called that.

1984 Amer. Speech Spring 62 Newspapers are beginning to convert their libraries (‘morgues’) from clipping files to electronic data bases incorporating the text of back issues.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Nov. 3/1 He was a morgue-keeper [in New York].

1923 G. C. Bastian Editing Day's News 10 The person in charge of the newspaper files, clippings, and pictures [is] called the ‘morgue librarian’.

1932 ‘Spindrift’ Yankee Slang 56 Morgue walk, from condemned cells to gallows or electric chair.

1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iv. vi. 320 Morgue wagons were joining the other vehicles at the scene.

1993 Empire Aug. 32/4 The thread stitching together the pieces of this complicated design is tenacious morgue worker Sonya.

C2.

morgue-man n. a man who maintains a morgue (sense 2) in a newspaper office.

ΚΠ

1912 Outlook 14 Sept. 84/1 In some newspaper offices the morgue man and his assistants..work inside of steel cages.

1935 T. E. Lawrence Let. 4 Feb. (1938) 851 Let us now pass to the epitaph. Yes, Hogarth did the morgue-men a first sketch of me in 1920, and they are right to overhaul their stocks.

Derivatives

ˈmorgue-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [adjective] > resembling morgue

morgue-like1913

1913 Cassell's Mag. of Fiction & Pop. Lit. June 50/1 The long deserted tables, shrouded in black covers, would have seemed morgue-like to a casual observer.

1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 28 Her large morgue-like mouth was full of blackened teeth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	morgue
释义	morguen.¹ Brit. /mɔːɡ/, U.S. /mɔrɡ/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French morgue. Etymology: < Middle French, French morgue haughty demeanour (1538), countenance (mid 15th cent.) < Middle French morguer to treat with arrogance (first attested 1575 but Trésor de la langue française s.v. suggests probably introduced to French in mid 15th cent. at the end of the Hundred Years War), probably < a verbal base (formed with post-classical Latin -icare or its reflex) cognate with Old Occitan mor , more muzzle, snout (see morfound v.). Compare morgue n.² A haughty demeanour; haughty superiority; pride, arrogance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > [noun] highnesseOE orgelnessOE orgelOE orgula1200 hautainesse1297 deignoushedec1330 daina1400 hautesse1399 hautainetya1450 orgulitya1470 courage1484 haughtness1489 stateliness1509 stomacha1513 heighta1525 stiffness1526 fastidie1536 disdainfulness1548 loftiness1548 fastidiousness?1555 haughtiness1555 high-mindedness1571 squeamishness1580 hichtiness1596 morguec1598 signory1598 superciliosity1606 overliness1610 superciliousness1622 excelsity1623 hauteura1628 cavalierism1643 supercilium1657 condescendency1667 supercile1679 uncondescension1681 superbness1682 fastidiosity1704 condescension1752 aristocratism1792 aristocracy1822 patricianism1826 touch-me-not-ishness1836 cavalierishness1860 patronization1944 c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 180 Nather looking sillelie lyke a stupide pedante, nor unsetledlie uith ane unkouth morgue, lyke a neu come ouir caualier. 1614 P. Forbes Def. Lawful Calling 65 A vaine..bravado, which to offer vs with a newe and high morgue, our adversaries have newlie bene animated, by their late supplement of fresche forces from beyond sea. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vi. 150 Prudence..induced him to wave the morgue, or haughty superiority of a knight and noble towards an inferior personage. 1863 M. Arnold Let. 2 Dec. An amiable family, and with nothing at all of the English morgue. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 59 That official morgue, that narrow and unsympathetic self-satisfaction which has done us such incalculable harm in our dealings with other races. 1909 Cambr. Mod. Hist. XI. ii. 39 The whole reputation for probity upon which this French middle class Government prided itself, which reputation Guizot's morgue had largely helped to preserve, collapsed. 1969 P. Anderson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 233 The famous morgue and truculence of Wittgenstein, Namier or Popper, expressed their inner confidence of superiority. 1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute i. 24 Men..whose open, friendly expressions quite lacked the self-consciousness, self-satisfaction and morgue sometimes to be seen in soldiers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). morguen.² Brit. /mɔːɡ/, U.S. /mɔrɡ/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French morgue. Etymology: < French morgue, specific sense development of Middle French morgue morgue n.¹ The sense development in French proceeds from the sense ‘place in a prison where the guards examine new prisoners before locking them up’ (1611, probably with reference to the haughty expression of the jailers; slightly earlier in figurative use), to the sense ‘place where unidentified bodies are displayed’ (1674), and subsequently, probably after English, ‘hospital mortuary’ (recorded in French in this sense only from 1942). 1. a. Originally (usually as the Morgue): a building in Paris in which the bodies of people found dead were kept until identified (now historical). Subsequently (originally U.S.): any building or room (as in a hospital) used for the hygienic storage of corpses prior to examination or disposal; a mortuary. Also figurative.The Paris Morgue was situated at the eastern end of the Ile de la Cité. It replaced the old Basse-Geôle, part of the Grand Châtelet (demolished in 1801), which overlooked the Pont au Change. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > mortuary > mortuary for identification the Morgue1795 1795 Impartial Hist. Fr. Revol. I. 92 They went with them to the Palais Royal, and afterwards carried them to the Morgue. 1821 Sporting Mag. 8 69 ‘The Morgue’ where those who die by accident or self-murder are carried—a small building in Paris. 1833 Edinb. Rev. July 348 The keeper of the dead-house or Morgue of Drontheim. 1836 G. W. Haven tr. H. Heine Lett. Hist. Mod. Polite Lit. in Germany 27 Literary history! It is a vast morgue [Ger. Morgue], where each seeks out the friend whom he most loved. 1850 H. C. Lewis Odd Leaves Life Louisiana Swamp Doctor 134 The morgue in this institution [sc. a hospital], was directly under the lecture room. 1887 Catholic World Nov. 176 Nuns of the same rule..bound themselves by a special vow, besides attending to the burial of unclaimed corpses at the Morgue. 1909 E. V. Lucas Wanderer in Paris iv. 54 A small official-looking building at the extreme east end of the Ile de la Cité..is the Morgue..now closed to idle gazers. 1946 Sci. Digest Aug. 28/2 Grim statistics from the morgue prove that the great majority of those who are overweight die long before the average. 1978 R. Cobb Death in Paris ii. v. 92 The new Morgue had itself become a favourite excursion for a Sunday walk,..at least among middle-class families. 1987 E. Leonard Bandits iv. 46 The girl..would be on the top floor of the infirmary... That's where the morgue was. b. In extended use: any repository of unwanted, forgotten, or discarded things; a gloomy, cheerless place. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > anything like or used as grave1559 tomb?1566 morgue1850 1850 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Representative Men vii. 284 I join Napoleon with him, as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions. 1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 789/1 A modest circuit lawyer in Maine's northern counties wrote two five-act tragedies that have been consigned to the morgue of American blank verse. 1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 91 The room..was filled with objects..which possessed that quality of veteran prostitutes:..—a room apparently exhumed from a theatrical morgue and rented intact. 1968 S. L. Elliott Rusty Bugles i. iv, in E. Hanger 3 Austral. Plays 64 Hey.., come on... I'll give you a game of billiards. Let's get out of this morgue. 1998 T. Hughes Birthday Lett. (1999) 154 The funeral of colour and light and Life! London a morgue of dinge—English dinge. 2. slang. a. In a newspaper office: a collection of miscellaneous material relating to people still living, assembled for use in future obituaries; the department in which this material is kept. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > copy > collection of obituaries morgue1903 1903 E. L. Shuman Pract. Journalism 103 This can be done with the aid of the ‘morgue’ or cabinet of biographical and obituary materials that is maintained in every wide-awake newspaper office. 1925 B. Benefield Chicken-wagon Family 94 I have written a column of assorted obituaries after having dug up enough material in the ‘Transcript's’ ‘morgue’ for six columns. 1951 A. C. Clarke Sands of Mars xi. 136 In a score of newspaper offices, the copy culled from the Morgue began to be set up in type. 1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xviii. 187 The Banner morgue was unusually comprehensive, and it contained some interesting material about Haynes. b. More generally: an archive or library of cuttings, photographs, or other reference material (sometimes including sense 2a); the office or department in which this material is kept. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept registery1483 chancery1523 registry1531 cartuary1539 Register House1540 cartulary?1541 arches1626 register office1641 archive1645 record office1647 tabulary1656 registry office1720 registrature1762 dufter1791 records department1825 PRO1892 morgue1914 1914 Jrnl. Proc. 52nd Ann. Meeting National Educ. Assoc. U.S. 811 The scrapbook is one of the most honored of all books in the library, but the ‘morgue’ as a department of the library has not as yet received the attention which it deserves. 1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made viii. 200 To make sure that the details are true, a studio has filed away in its morgue photographs of the life it wishes to depict. 1937 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 148/2 Beside his [sc. Jack London's] California laurel desk, with its oil burning..lamp..is preserved his neat ‘morgue’, as writers call their reference library. 1962 Listener 12 July 57/1 Cartoonists in the United States rely for day-to-day material on newspaper morgues and wire-photographs. 1972 Times 16 May (Wall Street Suppl.) p. vii/2 Over to the New York Times for background material from their morgue: yes, the library is officially called that. 1984 Amer. Speech Spring 62 Newspapers are beginning to convert their libraries (‘morgues’) from clipping files to electronic data bases incorporating the text of back issues. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Nov. 3/1 He was a morgue-keeper [in New York]. 1923 G. C. Bastian Editing Day's News 10 The person in charge of the newspaper files, clippings, and pictures [is] called the ‘morgue librarian’. 1932 ‘Spindrift’ Yankee Slang 56 Morgue walk, from condemned cells to gallows or electric chair. 1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iv. vi. 320 Morgue wagons were joining the other vehicles at the scene. 1993 Empire Aug. 32/4 The thread stitching together the pieces of this complicated design is tenacious morgue worker Sonya. C2. morgue-man n. a man who maintains a morgue (sense 2) in a newspaper office. ΚΠ 1912 Outlook 14 Sept. 84/1 In some newspaper offices the morgue man and his assistants..work inside of steel cages. 1935 T. E. Lawrence Let. 4 Feb. (1938) 851 Let us now pass to the epitaph. Yes, Hogarth did the morgue-men a first sketch of me in 1920, and they are right to overhaul their stocks. Derivatives ˈmorgue-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [adjective] > resembling morgue morgue-like1913 1913 Cassell's Mag. of Fiction & Pop. Lit. June 50/1 The long deserted tables, shrouded in black covers, would have seemed morgue-like to a casual observer. 1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 28 Her large morgue-like mouth was full of blackened teeth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1598n.²1795
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morguen.1

morguen.2

Compounds

Derivatives

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morguen.²