gouge

Εννοια (English)

Noun

1. Senses relating to cutting tools.
2. Senses relating to cutting tools.
3. Senses relating to cutting tools.
4. A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
5. (colloquial) An act of gouging.
6. (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
7. (slang) An impostor.
8. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
9. (slang) Information.

Verb

1. To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
2. To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
3. 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.
4. To use a gouge.

Synonyms

chisel

scoop out

force out

hollow

cheat

scoop

rout

dig out

wring

nick

groove

chase

trick

gyp

carve

hoax

rook

furrow

scratch

hoodwink

bamboozle

engrave

rack

incise

extort

dent

squeeze

ding

swindle

gouge out

bilk

glyptics

glyptography

goffer

goldbrick

gore

grave

🪦

gutter

hale

hole

🕳️

hollow out

humbug

impose

impostor

imprint

indent

inscribe

inscription

jockey

juggle

mulct

peck

plume

rabbet

rebate

rill

scallop

schlep

screw

sham

shark

🦈

shave

shortchange

short-change

slash

slice into

spline

spoof

stria

swindler

take in

chip at

shlep

trench

tug

undercut

welch

whipsaw

wrench

🔧

firmer chisel

play tricks

pluck out

scollop

depression

flim-flam

cavern out

lithoglyptics

point-tool

make hollow

adze

half-round chisel

bluff

bore

cart

cave

cavern

chamfer

character

chip

circumvent

cleave

con

cozen

crease

cut

deceive

dip

dish

draw

dupe

engraving

excavate

extortioner

fiddle

finagle

flute

🪈

fool

gash

gauffer

gip

glyph

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ɡaʊdʒ/

Ετυμολογία (English)

Inherited from Μέσα Αγγλικά: gouge

Cognate with Ιταλικά: gorbia

Cognate with Old Breton: golb

Cognate with Παλαιά Ιρλανδικά: gulba

Cognate with Πορτογαλικά: goiva

Cognate with Σκωτικά Κελτικά: gilb

Cognate with Ισπανικά: gubia

Cognate with Ουαλικά: gylf

In summary

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.