gouge vs stiff

gouge

noun
  • A cheat, a fraud; an imposition. 

  • Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore. 

  • A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding. 

  • An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials. 

  • An impostor. 

  • Information. 

  • An act of gouging. 

  • A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. 

  • A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc. 

verb
  • To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. 

  • To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. 

  • To use a gouge. 

  • To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. 

stiff

noun
  • A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle. 

  • Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card. 

  • A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill. 

  • A customer who does not leave a tip. 

  • A cadaver; a dead person. 

  • Negotiable instruments, possibly forged. 

  • A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate. 

  • A flop; a commercial failure. 

  • An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education. 

verb
  • To tip ungenerously. 

  • To kill. 

  • To cheat someone 

  • To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily. 

adv
  • Of the wind, with great force; strongly. 

adj
  • Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot. 

  • Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent. 

  • Dead, deceased. 

  • Erect. 

  • Inflexible; rigid. 

  • Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own. 

  • Formal in behavior; unrelaxed. 

  • Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible. 

  • Harsh, severe. 

  • Potent. 

  • Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise. 

  • Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir. 

  • Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small. 

  • Keeping upright. 

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