gash
/ɡæʃ/
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British/ɡaʃ/
gash noun: a deep cut.
Noun (1)
gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)
- A deep cut.
- Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade.
- Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46
- A vulva.
- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 150
- Synonyms:
- crack, ladybits, quim, axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha
- A woman.
- "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, chapter 19, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
Verb
gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)
Noun (2)
gash (countable and uncountable, plural gashes)
- Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.
- […] each man was on 'gash duty' about once in eighteen days.1960, David Brunt, The Royal Society International Geophysical Year Antarctic Expedition, page 17
- You will learn flight safety, aircraft duties, uniform, SEP, oxyCrew, gash cart, safety card, bar seals, life jacket, diagram, uplift, C209, plonky kit, Crew lounge!2007 04, Liz And Julie, You F`Coffee Sir, BingBong Ltd, →ISBN, page 104
- Nonsense.
- I hope you don't mind, but instead of “a load of gash” in this paragraph, could we say, “completely without merit”?2025 July 8, Charlotte Runcie, Bring the House Down: A Novel, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 96
- Something low quality.
- This new one he's got for free off a friend (I think), but it's absolute gash. It's huge and doesn't fit in with the deco of the room, but because he's got it for nowt he's not arsed about that.2012, Bennyness, No New Notifications, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 172
- When you load up the game, the first thing you notice is that it looks like complete and utter gash. Everything is made up of ugly blocks.2017 October 19, Arron Crascall, See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall, Hachette UK, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- cheapie, piece of shit, slop, crapola, garbage, hunk of junk, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, piece of crap
- Unused film or sound during film editing.
- Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.
- Synonyms:
- swipe, whip-belly vengeance
Adjective (1)
gash (not comparable)
- Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.
- Synonyms:
- lousy, shoddy, make-do, jury-rigged, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC
- Spare, extra.
- "All gash kit? There won't be no trouble with the books?"1987, Simon Raven, The Sabre Squadron: A Novel, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- extraneous, superfluous, surplus, acervatim, adscititious, dropsical, duplicate, excessive, exorbitant, expletive
Adjective (2)
gash (comparative more gash, superlative most gash)
Proper noun capitalized: Gash
Gash (plural Gashes)
- A surname.
gash meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
gash in Tamil
- நீண்ட ஆழமான வெட்டு
gash in Urdu
- چرکا, گہرا زخم, گھاؤ, زخم, گہرا زخم لگانا
gash in Bengali
- গভীর ক্ষত, লম্বা কাটা দাগ
gash in Malayalam
- ആഴമുള്ള മുറിവ്, പിളർപ്പ്, വലിയ വ്രണം, വായാടിയായ
More languagesFewer languages
- gash in Kannada
- ಸೀಳು, ಸೀಳುಗಾಯಮಾಡು
- gash in Punjabi
- ਪਾੜਨਾ pāṛnā
Examples of gash in a sentence
- The victim of the attack, Russell Mills, suffered a head gash, a broken knee cap and a broken wrist.1983 April 23, Sue Hyde, “Castro Bashers Jailed”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
- 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”, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bus...
- After scradge and another mug of tea I washed up, tipping the slops into the gash tin […]2024, Lewis Juckes, Antarctic Basalt, page 126:
- Well, this chap's obviously just cooked a pile of rancid old gash, no?2020, Tim Key, quoting Emily Juniper, He Used Thought as a Wife, →ISBN, page 38:
Synonyms of gash
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Forms of gash
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gashes |
| alternative form (dated) | garsh |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gashes |
| present participle | gashing |
| past participle | gashed |
| past | gashed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more gash |
| superlative | most gash |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gashes |
Origin of gash
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”).
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.
From ghastful, by association with gash.
Words formed from gash
Phrases with gash
Words that rhyme with gash
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- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gnash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about gash
- What does gash mean?
- Gash means a deep cut.
- What is gash in Tamil?
- Gash in Tamil is நீண்ட ஆழமான வெட்டு. See Gash meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use gash in a sentence?
- The victim of the attack, Russell Mills, suffered a head gash, a broken knee cap and a broken wrist.
- What part of speech is gash?
- Gash can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gash?
- Gash is pronounced /ɡæʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of gash?
- The plural of gash is gashes.
Words near gash in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gash (page history and authors); Gash (page history and authors); gash (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gash (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gash (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gash (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gash (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਪਾੜਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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