Meaning

9 senses
  1. Senses relating to cutting tools.

    (countable, uncountable)A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.

    Grabstichel, Hohlbeitel, Hohlmeißel

    полукруглое долотоpolukrugloje doloto

    and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

  2. (countable, uncountable)A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.

  3. (countable, uncountable)An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.

    The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.

    Furche, Rille

    жёлобžólob, вы́емкаvýjemka

  5. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)An act of gouging.

    the 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.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. Are you accusing us of price gouging?

    ruВы обвиняете нас в завышении цены?

    deWerfen Sie uns Preistreiberei vor?

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  2. Tom was accused of hoarding toilet paper and price gouging.

    Тома звинуватили у скуповуванні туалетного паперу і спекуляції на ньому.

    ruТома обвинили в скупке туалетной бумаги и спекуляции на ней.

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  3. Tom was accused of price gouging.

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  4. I'm going to gouge my eyes out.

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  5. I would gladly gouge out my eyes.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
chisel with a curved blade:
cut or groove:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
chisel with a curved blade:
cut or groove:

Origin

From Middle English gouge (“chisel with concave blade; gouge”), from Old French gouge, goi

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”).

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Forms

plural: gouges
Singulargouge
Pluralgouges

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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