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gash

noun
/ɡæʃ/

Etymology

From French gâcher (“to waste, to mess up”) or gâchis (“waste, a mess”), likely borrowed into English by ships' crews in the 19th century. Became increasingly vulgar by association with Etymology 1.

  1. derived from χαρακτήρ
  2. derived from *charaxāre✻
  3. derived from garser
  4. inherited from garsen

Definitions

  1. A deep cut.

    • Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade.
    • Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.
    • The victim of the attack, Russell Mills, suffered a head gash, a broken knee cap and a broken wrist.

  2. A vulva.

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

  3. A woman.

    • "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. To make a deep, long cut

      To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

      • My leg got gashed.

    2. Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.

      • […] each man was on 'gash duty' about once in eighteen days.
      • You will learn flight safety, aircraft duties, uniform, SEP, oxyCrew, gash cart, safety card, bar seals, life jacket, diagram, uplift, C209, plonky kit, Crew lounge!
      • After scradge and another mug of tea I washed up, tipping the slops into the gash tin […]

    3. Nonsense.

      • I hope you don't mind, but instead of “a load of gash” in this paragraph, could we say, “completely without merit”?

    4. Something low quality.

      • This new one he's got for free off a friend (I think), but it's absolute gash. It's huge and doesn't fit in with the deco of the room, but because he's got it for nowt he's not arsed about that.
      • When you load up the game, the first thing you notice is that it looks like complete and utter gash. Everything is made up of ugly blocks.
      • Well, this chap's obviously just cooked a pile of rancid old gash, no?

    5. Unused film or sound during film editing.

    6. Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.

    7. Of poor quality

      Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

    8. Spare, extra.

      • "All gash kit? There won't be no trouble with the books?"

    9. ghastly

      ghastly; hideous

    10. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA