gash

Meanings

Noun

• A deep cut.
• A vulva.
• A woman
• Rubbish, spare kit
• Rubbish on board an aircraft
• Unused film or sound during film editing
• Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

Adjective

• Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.
• ghastly; hideous

Verb

• To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

Origin

• Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ ("engraver").
• From ghastful, by association with gash.