Gouge vs Gash - What's the difference?
gouge | gash |
A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
* 1823 , ,
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
(slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
(slang) An impostor; a cheat.
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
* 1930 , ,
To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
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 gouge and gash
is that gouge is while gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash.As a noun gash is
a deep cut.gouge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)
Verb
(goug)- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.
Synonyms
* (make a mark or hole by scooping) engrave * (charge an unreasonable price) swindleDerived terms
* gouge out * price gouging * regougeReferences
* English transitive verbs ----gash
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.”