gouge
nounEtymology
From Middle English gouge (“chisel with concave blade; gouge”), from Old French gouge, goi (“gouge”), from Late Latin goia, gubia, gulbia (“chisel; piercer”), borrowed from Gaulish *gulbiā, from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbi, *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”). The English word is cognate with Italian gorbia, gubbia (“ferrule”), Old Breton golb, Old Irish gulba (“beak”), Portuguese goiva, Scottish Gaelic gilb (“chisel”), Spanish gubia (“chisel, gouge”), Welsh gylf (“beak; pointed instrument”), gylyf (“sickle”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Definitions
Senses relating to cutting tools.
- 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.
- The cutting [of letter blocks] is effected by chisels and gouges of the usual kinds, and is the work of a class of artizans called 'Wood letter Cutters,' or 'Wood-type Cutters.'
- Now hollow out the inside of the boat with a gouge or gouges. ("Firmer" gouges, ground on the outside of the curve, are used. "Paring" gouges are useless.)
A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- He makes himself look at his daughter's changing body the way he might look at a gouge on his own leg, forcing himself to examine every detail until he's not looking at a horror but a fact; something that needs fixing.
An act of gouging.
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A cheat, a fraud
A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
An impostor.
Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
Information.
- As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble.
- The Marines and “Coasties” (the nickname for Coast Guard students) were reputed to have good gouge on each class's test. Rumor had it that the Marines had inside information on the questions for the next day's FRR test, […]
To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- Imperfect examples of concave shells are to be seen in the salient of El Capitan, which is itself an imperfect dome, not wholly massive throughout, that has been vigorously gouged by the Yosemite Glacier.
- Gouges [...] are made of steel that is curved to varying degrees to "gouge" out excess wood.
To cheat or impose upon
To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.
- Women like Rachel sail through life wrapping men around their little fingers and gouging them for everything they've got.
To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge
To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- The recorded cases in which the constituents of the joint were removed at different times, and those also in which the bones or portions of the bones were gouged away, do not by any means afford satisfactory results.
- In milling, a blade with this irregularity in front slope causes the cutter to drag on one side and gouge on the other.
- He tried to clinch and gouge, but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
To use a gouge.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
fault gouge, gouge bit, antigouging, eye-gougingly, gougee, gouge out, gouger, gouging, price gouging, price gouge, regouge, ungouged
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA