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English Dictionary: gouging by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bouge \Bouge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gouged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Gouging}.]
      1. To scoop out with a gouge.
  
      2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out
            the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]
  
      Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly
               practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some
               parts of the United States.
  
      3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]
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