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gash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charax?re, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “engraver”).
Alternative forms
- garsh (dated)
Noun
gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)
- A deep cut.
- 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.
- 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
- (slang, offensive) A woman
- 1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Ch. 19:
- "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.
- 1934, James T. Farrell, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Ch. 19:
- (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
- (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
- (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
Translations
Adjective
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
- (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)
- To make a deep, long cut; to slash.
Translations
Etymology 2
From ghastful, by association with gash.
Adjective
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous
Related terms
- gashful
- gashly
Anagrams
- HAGS, hags, shag
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injustice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French injustice, from Latin iniustitia. Equivalent to in- +? justice.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?d??s.t?s/
Noun
injustice (countable and uncountable, plural injustices)
- Absence of justice; unjustice.
- Violation of the rights of another person or people.
- Unfairness; the state of not being fair or just.
Usage notes
- Injustice and unjust use different prefixes, as French injustice was borrowed into English, while unjust was formed as un- + just. The spelling injust, from French injuste, is very rarely used, and unjustice, from un- + justice, is nonstandard.
Synonyms
- justicelessness
- unjustice (nonstandard)
- wrong
- wrength
Related terms
- just
- justice
- unjust
- injust, injustly (rare)
Translations
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin ini?stitia, inj?stitia, from iniustus (“unjust”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.?ys.tis/
Noun
injustice f (plural injustices)
- injustice
Related terms
- justice
- injuste
Further reading
- “injustice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Verb
injustice
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of injustiçar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of injustiçar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of injustiçar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of injustiçar
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