| 单词 |
gouger |
| 释义 |
gouger|ˈgaʊdʒə(r), ˈguːdʒə(r)|
[f. gouge v. + -er1.]
One who gouges. a. One who thrusts out an antagonist's eye. b. One who cheats, a swindler.
1814Q. Rev. X. 522 Whenever American sculpture shall exhibit..a combat between two Virginian athletæ, the gouger and the gougee must [etc.]. 1826T. Flint Recoll. Mississippi 176 It is true there are gamblers and gougers and outlaws. 1840Haliburton Clockm. Ser. iii. ix, Regular built bruisers too; claw your eyes right out, like a Carolina gouger.
c. Austral. An opal-digger. Also, less commonly, a miner seeking other minerals, e.g. copper. Cf. opal-gouger.
1898Barrier Weekly Post 17 Sept. 13 The reason assigned for the absence of the ‘gouger’ from this hill is the extreme hardness of the ground not altogether the absence of opal. 1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King xiii. 112 The silver gougers relied for their supplies on bullock⁓teams from Menindee. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad vii. 58 Immature opal..was only too often..the usual portion of the gouger. 1937Discovery June 185/2 All their worldly wealth was their copper gouger's outfit. 1948V. Palmer Golconda iii. 19 Leave that piddling hand-to-mouth work to the gougers! Real mining was a long-range business. 1960Times Rev. Industry Mar. 96/3 Because the firm can handle only 650 tons of ore a year from North Queensland copper-gougers—miner-prospectors who rely on established mining companies to treat their ore—the gougers have invited Japanese mining companies to erect a treatment plant. 1968Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 4 Aug. 30/8 Copper gougers were warned last week against southern speculators moving in on Mt. Isa. |
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