The word "gorge" is a common and accepted word in written English.
You can use it to mean either the physical feature (a deep and narrow ravine, typically with a stream running through it) or to eat something quickly and hungrily. Example sentence: We hiked along the pretty gorge, admiring the lush green plants and the sparkling stream.
Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven't panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy's sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that's been constructed so far doesn't have any major weaknesses in it at all.
Happily, the EU has lifted its ban on the super-sweet alphonso, which has just come into season, so if you can find it (and you'll need a good greengrocer, market or Indian specialist grocers), gorge yourself.
I gorge on chocolate as I once did on cheap red wine.
A blog I began a few years ago – a stunningly successful experiment in national secrecy located several thousand miles up a winding gorge in the outer reaches of the internet – had, like most blogs, all the virtual footfall of a moon crater in low season.
The art is thought-provoking and the setting, overlooking a deep gorge, is superb (entrance: £6).
It is understood the men were swimming near the Ceunant Mawr waterfall, otherwise known as Llanberis Falls, which plunges more than 100ft in two stages into a narrow gorge.
Not far from the village of Killiecrankie in the Scottish Highlands, there is a densely wooded gorge through which the River Garry rushes.
My long weekend had begun 48 hours earlier when 15 strangers assembled for a guided swimming trip that would see us cover 17km of the river Wye, from the market town of Ross to the magnificent Symonds Yat gorge that's patrolled by peregrine falcons.
We came to the edge of the canyon and started down, a descent of about 50 metres into a narrow gorge with red rock walls.
As we walked up the gorge, Don Sotero pointed to where the recent rains had swept sand and gravel down the gorge, burying much of the best art.
"Moral hazard" is one of the key arguments often used against such an approach: allow reckless borrowers a get-out clause, and you give them an incentive to gorge on cheap debt in the good times.
