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gash

adj · name · noun · verb · 17 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Australian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɡæʃ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /ɡaʃ/
  • SSB Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-Zealand: /ɡɛʃ/
  • rhymes with -æʃ
  • CMU ARPABET: G AE1 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, not-comparable, slang, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: lousy, shoddy, make-do, jury-rigged, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched, ad lib, extemporal, extemporary, extemporaneous, extempore, extemporized, impromptu, improvised, improviso, off-the-cuff, offhand, spur-of-the-moment

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Spare, extra.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, dated, not-comparable, slang

Topics: government, military, politics, war

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: extraneous, superfluous, surplus, acervatim, adscititious, dropsical, duplicate, excessive, exorbitant, expletive, extra, extravagant, gash, gorged, inessential, inordinate, lavish, needless, nonessential, overflowing, overmuch, overweening, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, repetitive, replete, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, supernumerary, supersaturated, supervacaneous, surplusage, too many, too much, unnecessary, verbose

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

ghastly; hideous

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A deep cut.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gullick, incision, slash

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: injury, wound, scath, scathe, lesion, dere

6

noun

Meaning 6

A vulva.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crack, ladybits, quim, axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha, clam, cooch, coochie, coochy, cookie, coot, cooter, cunny, cunt, fanny, foo-foo, front bottom, fur burger, fur pie, gash, gee, girl penis, hair pie, ham sandwich, honey hole, it, kebab, kitty, minge, minnie, moocha, mooshoo, mott, muff, muffin, na-na, nonny, nooky, noonie, old hat, pee flap, pee-pee, pink, poontang, prat, pudendum muliebre, punani, pussy, quaint, quiff, rat, roast beef, scut, slit, slot, snatch, treasures, tuppence, twat, twinkle, vadge, vagina, vajay, va-jay-jay, vulva, wee-wee, yoni

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A woman.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, offensive, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bint, mort, twist, babe, baggage, bim, bird, bitch, blone, broad, chick, covess, dame, donna, feme, femme, femoid, frau, frow, gal, gash, gentlelady, ginch, hen, ho, huwoman, lady, maness, mulier, placket, pussy, queen, she, sheila, skirt, squaw, thot, tía, vaginoid, wan, wife, woman, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, wimmin

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, slang, uncountable

Qualifier: Antarctica

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: drek, garbage, refuse, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, rubbish, roughage, service item, shit, stuff, trash, waste

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Nonsense.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bollocks, gobbledygook, mumbo jumbo, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap, bulldust, bull feathers, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dribble, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, Gallophone, garbage, garble, gash, gibber, gibberish, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse cock, horsefeathers, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trittle trattle, tush, trash, tripe, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Something low quality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cheapie, piece of shit, slop, crapola, garbage, gash, hunk of junk, load of bull, load of crap, load of shit, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of junk, piece of trash, pile of crap, pile of shit, rubbish, schlock, tripe

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Unused film or sound during film editing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: swipe, whip-belly vengeance

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • My leg got gashed.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: carve, incise, lacerate, chive, cut, gash, incide, race, share, snead, snick, slash, slive, snithe

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: slash

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cut, cutting

15

noun

Meaning 15

a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cut

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: furrow

16

noun

Meaning 16

a wound made by cutting

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he put a bandage over the cut

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cut, slash, slice

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: wound, lesion

17

verb

Meaning 17

cut open

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she slashed her wrists

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: slash

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cut

History

Etymology

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.

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”).

Across languages

Translations

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: разрез (razrez) — deep cut
  • Bulgarian: дълбока рана (dǎlboka rana) — deep cut
  • Catalan: trau — deep cut
  • Czech: šrám — deep cut
  • Czech: rána — deep cut
  • Finnish: syvä viiltohaava — deep cut
  • French: entaille — deep cut
  • Georgian: განაჭერი (ganač̣eri) — deep cut
  • Georgian: ჭრილობა (č̣riloba) — deep cut
  • Georgian: ღრმული (ɣrmuli) — deep cut
  • German: (tiefer) Einschnitt — deep cut
  • Norwegian Bokmål: flenge — deep cut
  • Russian: разре́з (razréz) — deep cut
  • Russian: поре́з (poréz) — deep cut
  • Serbo-Croatian: posjekotina — deep cut
  • Serbo-Croatian: posjekotina — deep cut
  • Serbo-Croatian: posekotina — deep cut
  • Ukrainian: надріз (nadriz) — deep cut
  • Ukrainian: поріз (poriz) — deep cut
  • Ukrainian: рана (rana) — deep cut
  • Bulgarian: мацка (macka) — slang: woman
  • Norwegian Bokmål: berte — slang: woman
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skreppe — slang: woman
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kei — slang: woman
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kjei — slang: woman
  • Spanish: tajo — slang: woman
  • Norwegian Bokmål: søppel — slang: rubbish
  • Norwegian Bokmål: boss — slang: rubbish
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avfall — slang: rubbish
  • Bulgarian: разрязвам (razrjazvam) — to slash
  • Bulgarian: разсичам (razsičam) — to slash
  • Czech: rozseknout — to slash
  • Czech: rozseknout si — to slash
  • Czech: rozříznout — to slash
  • Czech: rozříznout si — to slash
  • Finnish: viiltää — to slash
  • Ancient Greek: ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō) — to slash
  • Māori: haratua — to slash
  • Māori: āhiwahiwa — to slash
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kutte — to slash
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skjære — to slash
  • Russian: разрезать (razrezatʹ) — to slash
  • Russian: ре́зать (rézatʹ) — to slash