morgue

Noun

Singular morgue

Plural morgues

1. A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts. <> macuware, wajen ajiyar gawarwaki.
   • Synonym: mortuary
   1. ...announced it had built a morgue. <>ta ba da sanarwar kera macuware --bbchausa_verticals/083-inside-the-minds-of-the-dead
   2. Would a doctor simply agree to differ if one of his colleagues continued to believe he could go straight from handling dead bodies in a morgue to examining sick patients in a hospital ward? <> Likita haka kawai zai yarda da ra’ayoyin abokan aikinsa idan ɗaya yana da ra’ayin cewa ya je nan da nan bayan ya yi aiki a kan gawa a gidan ajiye gawa sa’an nan ya ci gaba da bincika majiyyata? [1]
3. The archive and background information division of a newspaper.