Gnash vs Gash - What's the difference?
gnash | gash |
To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
To grind between the teeth.
(Geordie) To run away
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]:
(slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009),
(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.
To make a deep, long cut, to slash.
As verbs the difference between gnash and gash
is that gnash is to grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger while gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash.As a noun gash is
a deep cut.gnash
English
Verb
(es)- to gnash the teeth
- to gnash the air in fury
- to gnash a carpet
Derived terms
* gnasher/gnashers * gnashyAnagrams
* English terms with homophonesgash
English
Noun
(gashes)- 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.
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- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”