gash

  • 21gash — [[t]gæ̱ʃ[/t]] gashes, gashing, gashed 1) N COUNT A gash is a long, deep cut in your skin or in the surface of something. There was an inch long gash just above his right eye. 2) VERB If you gash something, you accidentally make a long and deep… …

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  • 22gash — noun (C) 1 a large deep wound from a cut: a deep gash on his leg 2 a long deep hole in something: The trench cut a brown gash through the green lawn. gash verb (T) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 23Gash — Recorded as Gaish, Gash, Gashe, Gasche, Gish, Goosh, Gosh, Gush, Wace, Waison, Wash, Wass and others, this is an English surname. It is however of pre 7th century Old French origins, and derives from the early personal name Gace, itself from an… …

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  • 24gash — Noun. 1. The vagina. 2. Women viewed as sexual objects. Offens/derog. 3. Nonsense. E.g. Don t talk gash, it s all lies. 4. Rubbish, useless things. 5. Something going spare, extra, in excess of requirements. E.g. If that s all gash, then I ll… …

    English slang and colloquialisms

  • 25gash — 1. noun /ɡæʃ/ a) A deep cut. 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… …

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  • 26gash — [16] Greek kharássein meant ‘sharpen, engrave, cut’ (it gave English character). It was borrowed into Latin as charaxāre, which appears to have found its way into Old Northern French as garser ‘cut, slash’. English took this over as garse, which… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 27gash — girls, broads, chicks, lovelies    We can t have a party without gash. Let s phone some girls …

    English idioms

  • 28gash —    a woman viewed lecherously    Literally, in slang, an object obtained for nothing or something surplus to requirements:     Maybe there s some of that Swedish gash hanging around. (Sanders, 1977) …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 29gash — gash1 noun a long, deep slash, cut, or wound. verb make a gash in. Origin ME garse, from OFr. garcer to chap, crack , perh. based on Gk kharassein sharpen, scratch, engrave . gash2 noun Brit. informal rubbish or waste. Origin early 20th cent.… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 30gash — 1. noun a gash on his forehead Syn: laceration, cut, wound, injury, slash, tear, incision; slit, split, rip, rent; scratch, scrape, graze, abrasion; Medicine lesion 2. verb he gashed his hand on some broken glass …

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