• (RP) IPA: /ɡaʊdʒ/
• (GA) IPA: /ɡaʊdʒ/

gouge (plural gouges)

1. Senses relating to cutting tools.
   1. A chisel#Noun|chisel with a curved#Adjective|curved blade for cut#Verb|cutting or scoop#Verb|scooping channel#Noun|channels, groove#Noun|grooves, or hole#Noun|holes in wood, stone#Noun|stone, etc.
      • 1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter VIII, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Published by Charles Wiley; J. Seymour, printer, OCLC 1076549695 ↗, page 118 ↗:

        The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine, that were fluted with a gouge, and loaded with mouldings.

   2. A bookbinder's tool#Noun|tool with a curved face#Noun|face, used for blind tooling or gilding#Noun|gilding.
   3. An incising tool that cuts blank#Noun|blanks or form#Noun|forms for envelopes, glove#Noun|gloves, etc., from leather, paper#Noun|paper, or other material#Noun|materials.
2. A cut#Noun|cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp#Adjective|sharp.

   The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.

3. (originally, US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
4. (slang) A cheat#Noun|cheat, a fraud; an imposition.

   Synonyms: swindle

5. (slang) An impostor.
6. (mining) Soft material lie#Verb|lying between the wall#Noun|wall of a vein and the solid#Adjective|solid vein of ore.

• French: gouge
• German: Grabstichel, Hohlbeitel, Hohlmeißel, Stichel
• Italian: sgorbia
• Russian: полукруглый
• Spanish: gubia

• French: gougeure, rainure
• German: Furche, Rille
• Portuguese: ranhura
• Russian: жёлоб
• Spanish: ranura (groove), surco (cut)

• Spanish: harina

gouge (gouges, present participle gouging; past and past participle gouged)

1. (transitive) To make a groove#Noun|groove, hole#Noun|hole, or mark#Noun|mark in by scoop#Verb|scooping with or as if with a gouge.

   Synonyms: engrave, grave, incise

   Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.

2. (transitive) To cheat#Verb|cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge#Verb|charge an unfairly or unreasonably high#Adjective|high price#Noun|price.

   Synonyms: defraud, swindle

   The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To dig#Verb|dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb#Noun|thumb to push#Verb|push or try to push the eye#Noun|eye (of a person) out of its socket.
4. (intransitive) To use#Verb|use a gouge.

• French: gouger, graver
• German: ausstechen, bohren, einschlagen
• Russian: долби́ть

• German: abzocken, schröpfen
• Russian: обдира́ть

• Russian: выка́лывать

• French: éborgner
• Russian: выбива́ть глаз

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