GOUGER

swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter

(noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

gouger

(noun) an attacker who gouges out the antagonist’s eye

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gouger (plural gougers)

Someone who gouges.

Source: Wiktionary


Gou"ger, n. (Zoƶl.)

Definition: See Plum Gouger.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; ā€œtheir business venture was doomed from the startā€; ā€œan ill-fated business ventureā€; ā€œan ill-starred romanceā€; ā€œthe unlucky prisoner was again put in ironsā€- W.H.Prescott


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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