Definitions for gouges

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gouges gouge

Spelling: [gouj]

IPA: /gaʊdʒ/

Gouges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in gouges (eggosu).

Definitions for gouges

noun

1. a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
2. an act of gouging.
3. a groove or hole made by gouging.
4. an act of extortion; swindle.
5. Geology. a layer of decomposed rocks or minerals found along the walls of a vein. fragments of rock that have accumulated between or along the walls of a fault.

verb (used with object)

1. to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge:
2. to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge:
3. to make a gouge in:
4. to extort from, swindle, or overcharge.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in swindling, overcharging, or the like:

Origin of gouges

1300-50; Middle English French Late Latin gu(l)bia; compare Old Provençal goja, Spanish gubia; perhaps Celtic; compare Old Irish gulba sting, Welsh gylf beak, Cornish gilb borer

Examples for gouges

Mr. gouger's face bore its gentlest expression at that moment.

"You might at least have got an introduction for him," said gouger, reflectively.

"You were right, Mr. gouger," he said, turning to that gentleman.

gouger scented the difficulty under which he labors, in a moment.

Mr. gouger's face was, as ever, immovable before his employers.

Mr. gouger pursed up his lips, and uttered an impatient, "Pah!"

"Don't forget your own book," said gouger, in a note he enclosed for Roseleaf.

"I think you are foolish to delay so long introducing him to her," said gouger, finally.

"No," responded Mr. gouger, disposing of that theory in one breath.

If it was Mr. gouger who had rejected his work, it was Mr. gouger that he must see.