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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>gorets</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gopher-hole.html" title="gopher hole"/><link rel="next" href="gorilla-arm.html" title="gorilla arm"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">gorets</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gopher-hole.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gorilla-arm.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="gorets"/><dt xmlns="" id="gorets"><b>gorets</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/gor´ets/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found esp. on the
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Usenet newsgroup <tt class="systemitem">alt.gorets</tt>,
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which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in
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the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no
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definition is ever final. [A correspondent from the former Soviet Union
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informs me that <span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">gorets</i></span> is Russian for
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‘mountain dweller’. Another from France informs me that
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<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">goret</i></span> is archaic French for a young pig
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