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gash

1

[ gash ]

noun

  1. a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
  2. Slang: Vulgar.
    1. the vagina.
    2. Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a woman considered as a sex object.


verb (used with object)

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

gash

2

[ gash ]

adjective

, Chiefly Scot.
  1. wise, sagacious.
  2. neat; well-dressed; well-groomed.

gash

3

[ gash ]

adjective

, Scot. Archaic.
  1. dreary or gloomy in appearance.

gash

1

/ ɡæʃ /

verb

  1. tr to make a long deep cut or wound in; slash
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a long deep cut or wound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

gash

2

/ ɡæʃ /

adjective

  1. slang.
    surplus to requirements; unnecessary, extra, or spare
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Sensitive Note

When referring to a female, this term is used with disparaging intent and perceived as highly insulting. The word cunt shows a similar transfer of meaning from a woman’s genitalia to the woman herself.
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Other Words From

  • un·gashed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gash1

First recorded in 1540–50; alteration of Middle English garsen, garcen “to make medical incisions” (with alteration of s to sh after r), from Old French garser, jarsier “to scarify, wound,” from unrecoreded Vulgar Latin charaxāre, from Greek charássein “to scratch, notch”; character

Origin of gash2

First recorded in 1700–10; origin uncertain

Origin of gash3

First recorded in 1580–90; origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gash1

C16: from Old French garser to scratch, wound, from Vulgar Latin charissāre (unattested), from Greek kharassein to scratch

Origin of gash2

C20: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

Necks are gashed using broken household items—you know, the usual.

From Time

After gashing his head one morning in the fall of 2011 after taking an excessive amount of his antidepressant and his daughter’s muscle relaxants, Paul Brundage walked outside, fell into a retention pond, and drowned.

Additionally, defending the run is one of Green Bay’s weaknesses, which was on full display in last year’s NFC title game, when the San Francisco 49ers gashed the Packers’ defense during a lopsided win.

There was one moment where Bryan fell and landed on his watch, which hit his head and gave him this huge gash.

He has had operations on both knees, and they had to put him under anesthesia to clean a long gash in his left thigh.

There is a gash across his forehead, a cut on his lip, small bruises on his cheek and ear, but they are all surface.

He was lucky his injuries were minor, the worst being the 40 stitches needed for the gash on his leg.

Zimmerman, 28, suffered a broken nose, a gash to his head, and other injuries, according to Sanford police reports.

And a rampant ache in my head, seconded by a medium-sized gash in the scalp, didn't make for an access of optimism at that moment.

The white gash looked like a wide strip of paper pasted down the stick of ruined timber.

With one incision Balsamo separated the vertebral column a couple of inches from the brain, and opened a yawning gash.

A deep gash in a man's face made him better looking, for it showed that he had plenty of courage.

There was a ragged gash across the back where the bird's beak had torn it, but no blood oozed from the wound.

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