gash

See also: Gash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡæʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

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)

1. 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.

2. (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.”

3. (slang, offensive) A woman
4. (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
5. (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
6. (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
7. (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

Translations

deep cut

• Bulgarian: разрез (bg) m (razrez), дълбока рана f (dǎlboka rana)
• Catalan: trau (ca) m
• Finnish: syvä viiltohaava
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• French: entaille (fr)
• Georgian: განაჭერი (ganač̣eri), ჭრილობა (č̣riloba), ღრმული (ɣrmuli)
• Russian: разре́з (ru) m (razréz), впа́дина (ru) f (vpádina)
• Serbo-Croatian: posjekotina (sh)

vulva — see vulva

slang: woman

• Bulgarian: мацка (bg) f (macka)
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• Spanish: tajo (es) m

slang: rubbish

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Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

Verb

1. To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

Translations

to slash

• Bulgarian: разрязвам (bg) (razrjazvam), разсичам (bg) (razsičam)
• Finnish: viiltää (fi)
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• Maori: haratua, āhiwahiwa
• Russian: разрезать (ru) (razrezatʹ), ре́зать (ru) (rézatʹ)

Etymology 2

From ghastful, by association with gash.

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous

Related terms

• gashful
• gashly

Anagrams

• HAGS, hags, shag