gouge
pronunciation
How to pronounce gouge in British English:
UK [gaʊdʒ]
How to pronounce gouge in American English:
US [ɡaʊdʒ]
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- Noun:
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
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- Verb:
- force with the thumb
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- make a groove in
Word Origin
- gouge
- gouge: [15] Gouge may be of Celtic origin – a resemblance to forms such as Welsh gylf ‘beak’ and Cornish gilb ‘borer’ has been noted. But its earliest positively identifiable ancestor is late Latin gubia, whose Old French descendant gouge was borrowed by English.
- gouge (n.)
- mid-14c., "chisel with a concave blade," from Old French gouge "a gouge" (14c.), from Late Latin gubia, alteration of gulbia "hollow beveled chisel," probably from Gaulish (compare Old Irish gulban "prick, prickle," Welsh gylfin "beak"). Meaning "an imposition, a cheat" is from 1845, American English colloquial.
- gouge (v.)
- 1560s, "to cut with a gouge," from gouge (n.). Meaning "to force out with a gouge" (especially of the eyes, in fighting) attested by 1800. Meaning "to swindle" is American English colloquial from 1826 (implied in plural noun gougers). Related: Gouged; gouging.
Example
- 1. She flails at me and her nails gouge my face .
- 2. Wood carving : how to make a gouge honing board .
- 3. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men ?
- 4. Information about financial time bombs , like derivatives , is veiled in acronyms that make you want to gouge your eyes out .
- 5. Buy a new earthen jar then , find the place that buries cadaver , come to the earthen jar gouge that is buried in earth to break into pieces , had buried in the new earthen jar that buys person character relay into him next .