gouge

Meanings

Noun

• A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
• An act of gouging.
• A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
• An impostor.
• Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
• Information.

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle English gouge ("chisel with concave blade; gouge"), from Old French gouge, goi, from Late Latin goia, gubia, gulbia, borrowed from Gaulish *gulbiā, from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbi, *gulbīnos. The English word is cognate with Italian gorbia, gubbia, Old Breton golb, Old Irish gulba ("beak"), Portuguese goiva, Scottish Gaelic gilb ("chisel"), Spanish gubia ("chisel, gouge"), Welsh gylf ("beak; pointed instrument"), gylyf.
• The verb is derived from the noun.