Jag vs Gouge - What's the difference?
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A sharp projection.
* Holland
A part broken off; a fragment.
(botany) A cleft or division.
(Scotland) A medical injection.
To cut unevenly.
(Pittsburgh) To tease.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 88:
a one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
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.
Jag is a related term of gouge.
As an acronym jag
is (legal|military) judge advocate general.As a verb gouge is
.jag
English
Etymology 1
The noun is from late (etyl) jagge, the verb is from jaggen.Noun
(en noun)- garments thus beset with long jags
- (Bishop Hacket)
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
Etymology 2
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal , of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
See also
* Jag * JAGAnagrams
* ----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.