gouger

gougeleft to right: hollow, parting, and fluting gouges

gouge

G0206900 (gouj)n.1. A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.2. a. A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.b. A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.3. Informal A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.tr.v. gouged, goug·ing, goug·es 1. To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge: "He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane" (Vladimir Nabokov).2. a. To force out the eye of (a person) with one's thumb.b. To thrust one's thumb into the eye of.3. Informal To extort from.4. Slang To swindle.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin gubia, variant of gulbia, of Celtic origin.]

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goug′er n.

gouger

(ˈɡaʊdʒə) n1. a person or tool that gouges2. dialect Irish a low-class city lout

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	gouger - an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eyebattler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper - someone who fights (or is fighting)
	2.	gouger - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraudchiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindlercard shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy - a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card gamesclip artist - a swindler who fleeces the victimcon artist, con man, confidence man - a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victimbeguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not truewelcher, welsher - someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager