- gaorr
- fæces, ordure in the intestines, gore, Irish garr, probably from English gore, Anglo-Saxon gor, dirt. Hence gaorran, big belly, a glutton. In Arg. pronounced with Northern ao sound; in North, pronounced with ao broad as in Arg. Consider skar in sharn (Scottish); cf gaoirnean or gaoirnean.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.