Gash vs Hollow - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between gash and hollow

is that gash is a deep cut while hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.

As verbs the difference between gash and hollow

is that gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash while hollow is to make a hole in something; to excavate.

As an adjective hollow is

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

As an adverb hollow is

completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

As an interjection hollow is

alternative form of lang=en.

gash

English

Noun

(gashes)

A deep cut.

* 2006 , New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage]:

Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.

(slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy

* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:

“Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”

(slang, offensive) A woman

(slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit

(slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft

(slang) Unused film or sound during film editing

(slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

Verb

(es)

To make a deep, long cut, to slash.

Anagrams

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hollow

English

Alternative forms

* holler

Etymology 1

(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.

Adjective

(er)

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere

(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.

a hollow moan

(Dryden)

(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

a hollow victory

(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

a hollow promise

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

* Shakespeare

With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.

Derived terms

* hollow leg

Adverb

(-)

(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Etymology 2

(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.

Noun

(en noun)

A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.

* Prior

Forests grew upon the barren hollows .

* Tennyson

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.

He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.

A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

the hollow of the hand or of a tree

(US) A sunken area.

(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.

a hollow in the pit of one's stomach

Verb

(en verb)

to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive)

Etymology 3

Compare holler.

Verb

(en verb)

To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.

* Sir Walter Scott

He has hollowed the hounds.

Interjection

(en interjection)

(Webster 1913)