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 Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”).

Alternative forms

• garsh (dated)

Noun

gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)

1. A deep cut.
   • 1983 April 23, Sue Hyde, “Castro Bashers Jailed”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

     The victim of the attack, Russell Mills, suffered a head gash, a broken knee cap and a broken wrist.

   • 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.
   • 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 150:

     “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”

3. (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman.
   • 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 19, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:

     "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.

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
• Czech: šrám m, rána (cs) f
• Finnish: syvä viiltohaava
• French: entaille (fr)
• Georgian: განაჭერი (ganač̣eri), ჭრილობა (č̣riloba), ღრმული (ka) (ɣrmuli)
• German: (tiefer) Einschnitt m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flenge m or f

• Russian: разре́з (ru) m (razréz), впа́дина (ru) f (vpádina)
• Serbo-Croatian: posjekotina (sh), posjekotina (sh) f, posekotina f
• Ukrainian: надріз m (nadriz), поріз m (poriz), (глибока) рана f (rana)

vulva — see vulva

slang: woman

• Bulgarian: мацка (bg) f (macka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: berte (no) m or f, skreppe m or f, kei n, kjei n

• Spanish: tajo (es) m

slang: rubbish

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søppel (no) n, boss n, avfall (no) n

Adjective

gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)

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

Verb

gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)

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

   My leg got gashed.

Translations

to slash

• Bulgarian: разрязвам (bg) (razrjazvam), разсичам (bg) (razsičam)
• Czech: rozseknout pf, rozseknout si pf, rozříznout pf, rozříznout si pf
• Finnish: viiltää (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō)

• Maori: haratua, āhiwahiwa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kutte (no), skjære (no)

• 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