gash
See also: Gash
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “to scratch, notch”).
Noun
gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)
- A deep cut.
- 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:
- Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
- 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- (slang, offensive) A woman
- (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
- (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
- (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
Translations
deep cut
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vulva — see vulva
slang: woman
slang: rubbish
Adjective
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
- (slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.
Verb
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Translations
to slash
Etymology 2
From ghastful, by association with gash.
Adjective
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
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