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gougings

gougings is the plural of gouging.

Meaning of gouging

Noun

gouging (countable and uncountable, plural gougings)

  1. The act of one who gouges.
    • He remembered calling out: "Let up, now—no fair gouging!" and then he crawled from under the lion…1907, O. Henry, The Princess and the Puma, pages 266–275
  2. (countable) A mark produced by gouging.
    • The damage consists in general of more or less deep cuts or gougings on the flesh side of the hide, often penetrating through the hide to the grain side.1943, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, volumes 41-42, page 230

Phrases with gougings

Questions about gougings

What is gougings the plural of?
Gougings is the plural of gouging.

Words near gougings in the dictionary

  1. Gough Island
  2. Goughs
  3. Goughs Bay
  4. gouging
  5. gouging out
  6. gougings
  7. Gougu
  8. Gougu rule
  9. Gougu theorem
  10. gougère
  11. gougères

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