'Gouging' definitions:
Definition of 'Gouging'
From: GCIDE
- Bouge \Bouge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gouged; p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging.]
- 1. To scoop out with a gouge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.] [1913 Webster]
- Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.] [1913 Webster]