Gouge

Definition: Gouge

Gouge

Noun

1. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).

2. And edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves.

3. The act of gouging.

Verb

1. Force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes".

2. Obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss".

3. Make a groove in.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gouge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Gouge \Gouge\, noun. [French expression gouge. late Latin gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; compare to Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.]. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Gouge

Concavity

Render concave; Adjective: depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.

Perforator

Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.

Crosswords: Gouge

French (gouge).

We came here to rob them and that's what we're gonna do -- beat their heads in, gouge their eyes out, slash their throats (We're No Angels; writing credit: Albert Husson; Ranald MacDougall)

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Books

• Transmetropolitan: Gouge Away (reference)

• William Gouge of Domesticall Duties English Experience (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Delta 46-731 1/4" Gouge Wood Lathe Turning Tool (reference)

• Jesada 333-030 3/16" Carving Gouge (#5) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Small waterfalls called headcuts gouge stream channels ever deeper as they move upstream. The variety and vigor of the insects that biologist Sam Testa collects will reflect the level of environmental harshness or pollution in this stream. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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Expressions using "gouge": Gouge bit ♦ gouge out ♦ gouge out smb.'s eye ♦ gouge out smb.'s eyes. Additional references.

Ending with "gouge": u-gouge.

Albanian

gdhend (adz, adze, carve, chase, chisel, die, enchase, engrave, incise, inscribe, intaglio, Nick, polish, rasp, refine, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, shape, shave), gërryej (be corroded, be eroded, cave, chew, corrode, dredge, erode, hollow out, honeycomb, rasp, scoop out, scuff, tear, tear to pieces), daltë konkave. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مظفار إزميل, ‏نقر (drum, flip, peck, percuss, plunk, prickle, tap, tapping), ‏نحت (boast, carving, chisel, erode, incise, pattern, scratch, sculpt, sculpture), ‏قلع (lever, lifting, pull, rip, root, take off), ‏إبتز مال فلان. (various references)

Bulgarian 

шлосерско длето, мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, stick, string along, take, twist, victimize), жлеб (fillister, fuller, groove, mortise, pod, rabbet, race, rebate, slot), изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), изнудване (blackmail, exaction, extortion, racket, ramp, shakedown), изнудвам (hijack, racketeer, ramp, screw, shark), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), издълбавам (bore, chase, engrave, hollow out, incise, notch, quarry, scoop out, scrape, scrape out), дълбане. (various references)

Chinese 

蛾眉凿. (various references)

Czech

duté dláto, žlábkové dláto. (various references)

Danish

kehlejern (hollow bit), hulmejsel (hollow bit), huljern (hollow bit). (various references)

Dutch

guts (hollow bit, spud), holle beitel (hollow bit), beitel (chisel). (various references)

Farsi 

منقار (Beak, Bill, Rostrum), کندن (Cutout, Dig, Gully, Mine, Peel, Pick, Pluck, Pug, Pull, Rend, Scoop, Trench), گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), غضب (Anger, Huff, Ire, Outburst, Outrage, Rage, Temper, Wrath), جبر (Algebra, Force), اسکنه جراحی , دراوردن (Erupt, Evolve, Render, Wisp), بزورستانی , بزورستاندن (Grate), بااسکنه کندن . (various references)

Finnish

kovertaa (hollow, scoop out). (various references)

French

gouge. (various references)

German

Gutsche (hollow bit), stichel (burin), Hohlmeißel (hollow bit), hohleisen, Hohlbeitel (hollow bit), Beitel (chisel), ausmeißeln, aushöhlung (cavity, erosion, hollow, hollowing out, undermining, weakening), aushöhlen (erode, gut, hollow out, scoop out, to hollow out, undermine, weaken, wear away). (various references)

Greek 

σκαρπέλο (chisel). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפסלת (chisel), לפסל (carve, chisel, hew, sculpt), ל� קור (bore, perforate). (various references)

Hungarian

völgyelő véső (turning-chisel), vájóvéső, kivájás, kecskeláb-véső, hornyolat (chase, gorge, score), homorulat (concavity, incurvature), homorító véső, homorú csontvéső, falc (chase), csirkefogó (badmash, cad, knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, scamp, scampish, scoundrel), csalás (a plant, bubble, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, collusion, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, falsehood, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, let in, racket, roguery, scam, sell, snide, swindle, swizzle, trickery), barázda (chase, furrow, groove, gutter, lining, open furrow). (various references)

Indonesian

mencungkil (gouge out, pry off, pry up). (various references)

Italian

sgorbia (cape chisel, chisel, cross-cut chisel, hollow bit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抉る (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out), �"る (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out), 丸鑿 (a gouge), 刳貫く (to bore, to drill, to excavate, to gouge out), 刳り貫く (to bore, to drill, to excavate, to gouge out), 刳り抜く (to bore, to drill, to excavate, to gouge out), 刳る (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くりぬく (to bore, to drill, to excavate, to gouge out), くる (hunchback, rickets, to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to become, to bore, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to excavate, to get, to gouge, to grow, to hollow out, to reel, to scoop out, to set in, to wind), まるのみ (a gouge, swallowing whole), えぐる (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out). (various references)

Manx

gilbey (chisel, chiselling), gilb cruinn. (various references)

Pig Latin

ougegay.(various references)

Portuguese

goiva (pointer). (various references)

Romanian

scobi cu daltã, scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), scoabã (bracer, chisel, clamp, clasp, clench, clincher, clip, cramp, crampon, dog, Gib, link, staple, strap, yoke), escroca (cheat, chouse, fiddle, fleece, gull, humbug, rook, swindle, victimize), escroc (bilk, biter, blackguard, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler), daltã (chisel), adânci (aggravate, Bury, corrode, deepen, delve, excavate, fathom, further, hole, sound, submerge, subside). (various references)

Russian 

выкалывать, выдалбливать (cave), полукруглое долото, долбить;обжуливать долото;канавка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podvaliti (cheat, gull, hoax, swindle, welch, welsh), podvala (fraud, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hoax, hokum, humbug, imposture, jew's pitch, jiggery pokery, plant, swindle), izdubiti (cave, chisel, dig, hollow out, sink), dleto (chisel, hardy). (various references)

Spanish

gubia (scoop, scooper). (various references)

Swedish

urholka (dig out, excavate, hollow, hollow out, wash away), trycka ut (press out). (various references)

Thai

ร่องที่เกิ�"จากการแซะ, ขุ�" (dig). (various references)

Turkish

para sızdırmak (blackmail, bleed, bleed smb., clean out, shake down, squeeze, tap, touch), para sızdırma (shakedown, touch), oyuk (alcove, bore, burrow, cavern, cavity, excavation, hallow, hole, hollow, niche, pit, pocket, sinus, socket), oymak (bore, boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, clan, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge out, grave, hollow, hollow out, incise, recess, scoop out, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, trace over, tribe), oyma keskisi (graving tool, hollow bit), oluk (chamfer, channel, chase, chute, conduit, flute, gangway, groove, gully, gully drain, gutter, rabbet, riffle, runnel, slot, spline, throat, trough), kazıklamak (bunco, cheat, chisel, clip, do smb. brown, fleece, fob, fob smb. off, have smb. on, jew, Nick, overcharge, put it on, put it over on, rook, rush, sell, skin, soak, sting, stuff smb., take for a ride), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), heykeltraş kalemi (graving tool), şantajla para almak (racketeer). (various references)

Ukrainian

виїмка (chamfer, channel, coulisse, indent, notch, notching), видовбувати (cave, hollow, indent, mortice, mortise, scoop, spoon), видовбування (indentation), видавлювати (press), обманювати (baffle, bam, beguile, begunk, betray, bluff, bubble, buffalo, cheat, chouse, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, impose, mountebank, swindle, trick, victimize), обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile), напівкругле долото. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lừa gạt (cozenage, deceifulness, delusion, juggle, rig, take-in), cái đục khum rânh máng. (various references)

Welsh

geingio (chisel), gaing gau, cynio (chisel), cafnio (hollow out, scoop). (various references)

besillier, pochier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gouge": gouged, gouger, gougers, gouges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gouge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaouge, Gaugi, gaugy, geage, geoge, geogo, gloogle, Glough, glug, goage, godge, goga, goge, Gogen, gogu, gogue, Goguel, gogul, Golgo, googa, googe, googel, google, Gosute, goue, goug, gougee, gough, gougle, gougr, gouje, goule, goune, gourge, gouse, goute, Gouveia, gowge, grouge, gruge, Gueguen, guggi, Guggum, guoge, Guugu, houge, ogge, ogooue, Oige, ouge, souge, touge. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: egg, ego.

-3 letters: go, oe.

+1 letter: gouged, gouger, gouges.

+2 letters: gougers, gudgeon.

+3 letters: gorgeous, gudgeons, rogueing, roughage, roughleg, vogueing.

+4 letters: demagogue, egregious, gudgeoned, outbegged, outrigger, pedagogue, roughages, roughlegs, synagogue, unclogged.

+5 letters: bulldogged, bulldogger, burgeoning, demagogued, demagogues, dungeoning, epiloguing, eulogising, eulogizing, gangrenous, gorgeously, gregarious, gudgeoning, guerdoning, gumshoeing, mystagogue, outbegging, outbragged, outdragged, outriggers, overurging, pedagogues, regrouping, roughening, sialagogue, suggestion, synagogues, toughening, undergoing.