gorn

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɔːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɔɹn/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

See gone.

gorn

1. Pronunciation spelling of gone.
   • 1898 January 1, “A Bachelor Uncle’s Diary”, in Punch, page 303:

     you know the govner and mater have gorn to Beerits and want us ther too

   • 1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows, page 209:

     “Don’t mind ’im, sir,” she advised. “’E’s more’n arf-gorn a’ready, a-’itting the jug every blessed stop.”

   • 1928, Arthur Schlesinger, quoting a sailor’s letter dated 1864, Memoranda and Documents: A Blue Bluejacket’s Letters Home, 1863-1864, page 561:

     evry thing seemed to be all quiet and so to day we have gorn up the river again whar we was before

Blend of gore +‎ porn

gorn (usually uncountable, plural gorns)

1. A work that dwells upon graphic and realistic scenes of sadistic torture, mutilation, vivisection, cannibalism, etc. to the point of being pornographic.^[1]
   • 2006, The Official Xbox Magazine, Issues 62-65‎^[1], numbers 62-65, Future Network USA, page 95:

     Well, someone should really make a Wikipedia entry coining the term "gore porn" (or better yet, "gorn"), which perfectly describes the movie version of Silent Hill.

   • 2010 March 30, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms‎^[2], illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 315:

     Recent works of gorn include the several Saw and Hostel films and The Devil's Rejects (2005). The glorification of blood and gore is not new, but it has only recently entered the mainstream.

   • 2012 June 22, Stephen Sclater, “The Innkeepers (DVD)”, in BigGayPictureShow.com‎^[3], Big Gay Picture Show, archived from the original on 6 December 2024:

     Perhaps after the spate of Gorn (Gore and porn) and ‘found footage’ movies over the past ten years (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity), the film industry is starting to realise we might be getting desensitized.

   • 2012 September 26, Angela Ndalianis, “5. Payback's a Bitch!”, in The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses‎^[4], illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 120:

     Discussing the ultra-gore torture porn or "gorn" subgenre, Brenda Cromb considers the audience's reaction to films like Saw.

   • 2023 December 18, Trent Horn, “We’re Desensitized to Death”, in Catholic.com‎^[5], Catholic Answers, archived from the original on 19 January 2024:

     Perhaps the pro-life movement’s challenges in the future will be to sanctify society and save it from both traditional porn that demeans life-giving sexual love as well as newer “gorn” (gore porn) that turns death (including unjust deaths) into something that piques our curiosity rather than our sense of justice.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gorn.

• guro

• “gorn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from Russian горн (gorn), from German Horn.

gorn

1. horn, bugle

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[6], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “gorn”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

gorn

1. soft mutation of corn (“horn”)