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gouge
English
Etymology
From Middle English gouge (“chisel with concave blade; gouge”), from Old French gouge, goi (“gouge”), from Late Latin goia, gubia, gulbia (“chisel; piercer”), borrowed from Gaulish *gulbi?, from Proto-Celtic *gulb?, *gulbi, *gulb?nos (“beak, bill”). The English word is cognate with Italian gorbia, gubbia (“ferrule”), Old Breton golb, Old Irish gulba (“beak”), Portuguese goiva, Scottish Gaelic gilb (“chisel”), Spanish gubia (“chisel, gouge”), Welsh gylf (“beak; pointed instrument”), gylyf (“sickle”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?a?d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?a?d?/
- Rhymes: -a?d??
Noun
gouge (countable and uncountable, plural gouges)
- Senses relating to cutting tools.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- Synonym: swindle
- (slang) An impostor.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- 2005, Jay A. Stout, To Be a U.S. Naval Aviator (page 63)
- As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble.
- 2013, Douglas Waller, Air Warriors: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot (page 89)
- The Marines and “Coasties” (the nickname for Coast Guard students) were reputed to have good gouge on each class's test. Rumor had it that the Marines had inside information on the questions for the next day's FRR test, […]
- 2005, Jay A. Stout, To Be a U.S. Naval Aviator (page 63)
Derived terms
- fault gouge
- gouge bit
Translations
Verb
gouge (third-person singular simple present gouges, present participle gouging, simple past and past participle gouged)
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- Synonyms: engrave, grave, incise
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- Synonyms: defraud, swindle
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
Derived terms
- gouger
- gouging (noun)
- price gouging
- regouge
Translations
References
Further reading
- chisel – gouge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gouge (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “gouge”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
French
Etymology
Old French gouge, from Latin gulbia (Late Latin gubia), of Gaulish or Basque origins.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Noun
gouge f (plural gouges)
- gouge (groove)
- gouge (tool)
- (obsolete) female servant
- (archaic) prostitute
- 1857, Charles Baudelaire, Bribes - Damnation,
- On peut les comparer encore à cette auberge, / Espoir des affamés, où cognent sur le tard, / Blessés, brisés, jurant, priant qu’on les héberge, / L’écolier, le prélat, la gouge et le soudard.
- They can also be compared to this inn, / Hope to the starved, where in the night knock, / Injured, broken, cursing, begging to be lodged, / The schoolboy, the prelate, the prostitute and the soldier.
- On peut les comparer encore à cette auberge, / Espoir des affamés, où cognent sur le tard, / Blessés, brisés, jurant, priant qu’on les héberge, / L’écolier, le prélat, la gouge et le soudard.
- 1857, Charles Baudelaire, Bribes - Damnation,
Verb
gouge
- first-person singular present indicative of gouger
- third-person singular present indicative of gouger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of gouger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of gouger
- second-person singular imperative of gouger
Further reading
- “gouge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Late Latin gubia, from Latin gulbia.
Noun
gouge f (oblique plural gouges, nominative singular gouge, nominative plural gouges)
- gouge (tool)
- (chiefly derogatory) woman
Descendants
- English: gouge
- French: gouge
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gouge, supplement)
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indent
English
Etymology
Partly from Middle English indenten (“to dent in”), equivalent to in- +? dent (see dent); partly from Middle English indenten, endenten, from Old French endenter (“to provide with teeth”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin d?ns.
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /??nd?nt/, /?n?d?nt/
- (verb) IPA(key): /?n?d?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
indent (plural indents)
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Translations
Verb
indent (third-person singular simple present indents, present participle indenting, simple past and past participle indented)
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- (intransitive, reflexive, obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
- , New York, 2001, p.91:
- The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.
- 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 28,[1]
- And is this now the Person who is to oblige his Maker? to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty?
- 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xlii-xliii,[2]
- […] he accidentally met with the commander of a trading vessel bound to Barbadoes, and being actuated by an adventurous spirit, [he] bargained for a passage by indenting himself to serve a planter for four years after his arrival in that island.
- , New York, 2001, p.91:
- (transitive, obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
- to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- (military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
- King Dasharatha requests the Sages to conduct the Vedic ritual for which the sages indent paraphernalia, which the ministers are ordered to supply forthwith Ramayana.
Antonyms
- unindent
- outdent
Translations
Anagrams
- Dinnet, dentin, intend, tinned
Latin
Verb
indent
- third-person plural future active indicative of ind?
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