gouger

Other forms of gouger

plural

gougers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gouger

What does gouger mean?

gouger means "an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gouger?

gouger has 2 syllables: gou-ger. The stress falls on "gou". In IPA it is /ˈɡaʊdʒɚ/.

What is another word for gouger?

Close synonyms include swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, scammer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gouger a common word?

gouger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.