gouge

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

chisel

scoop out

hollow

force out

scoop

cheat

rout

dig out

wring

carve

bilk

ding

nick

hoax

scratch

furrow

chase

swindle

squeeze

gouge out

dent

trick

rook

incise

rack

gyp

extort

bamboozle

groove

engrave

hoodwink

engraving

dupe

draw

chip

dish

gore

goldbrick

dip

cart

glyptography

glyptics

glyph

deceive

character

goffer

gip

gauffer

cut

gash

Translations

gubia

Hohlmeißel

sgorbia

goiva

gúbia

gouge

Rille

Furche

ausmeißeln

scavare con la sgorbia

rainure

gouger

extorquir

Hohleisen

abzocken

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡaʊdʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gouge

Cognate with Italian: gorbia

Cognate with Old Breton: golb

Cognate with Old Irish: gulba

Cognate with Portuguese: goiva

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic: gilb

Cognate with Spanish: gubia

Cognate with Welsh: 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.