gash

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American, Australian) IPA(key): /ɡæʃ/ (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA(key): /ɡaʃ/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɡɛʃ/ Rhymes: -æʃ Hyphenation: gash === Etymology 1 === Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”). ==== Alternative forms ==== garsh (dated) ==== Noun ==== gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes) A deep cut. Synonyms: gullick, incision, slash Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:injury 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. (slang, vulgar) A vulva. Synonyms: crack, ladybits, quim; see also Thesaurus:vulva (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman. Synonyms: bint, mort, twist; see also Thesaurus:woman ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed) To make a deep, long cut; to slash. Synonyms: carve, incise, lacerate; see also Thesaurus:cut ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From French gâcher (“to waste, to mess up”) or gâchis (“waste, a mess”), likely borrowed into English by ships' crews in the 19th century. Became increasingly vulgar by association with Etymology 1. ==== Noun ==== gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes) (slang) (chiefly UK, Antarctica) Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft. Synonyms: drek, garbage, refuse; see also Thesaurus:trash (UK, now vulgar) Nonsense. Synonyms: bollocks, gobbledygook, mumbo jumbo; see also Thesaurus:nonsense (UK, now vulgar) Something low quality. Synonyms: cheapie, piece of shit, slop; see also Thesaurus:low-quality thing Unused film or sound during film editing. Poor-quality beer, usually watered down. Synonyms: swipe, whip-belly vengeance ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== gash (not comparable) (UK slang) (now vulgar) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted. Synonyms: lousy, shoddy; make-do, jury-rigged; see also Thesaurus:low-quality, Thesaurus:impromptu (dated, chiefly military) Spare, extra. [c. 1950s] Synonyms: extraneous, superfluous, surplus; see also Thesaurus:redundant === Etymology 3 === From ghastful, by association with gash. ==== Adjective ==== gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash) (UK, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous ===== Related terms ===== === Further reading === Tony Thorne (2014), “gash adj British (1)”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London; […]: Bloomsbury, page 179: “spare, available” “gash n.1 (vagina)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present. “gash adj. (extra)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present. === Anagrams === HAGS, hags, shag