來自古法語garser, 劃傷，來自PIE*gher, 刻，劃，詞源同character,scratch. 字母r脫落比較arse, ass.
英文詞源
gash
gash: [16] Greek kharássein meant ‘sharpen, engrave, cut’ (it gave English character). It was borrowed into Latin as charaxāre, which appears to have found its way into Old Northern French as garser ‘cut, slash’. English took this over as garse, which survived, mainly as a surgical term meaning ‘make incisions’, into the 17th century. An intermediate form garsh, recorded in the 16th century, suggests that this was the source of modern English gash. => character
gash (v.)
1560s, alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen (late 14c.), from Old North French garser "to cut, slash" (see gash (n.)). For loss of -r-, see ass (n.2). Related: Gashed; gashing.
gash (n.)
1540s, alteration of Middle English garce "a gash, cut, wound, incision" (early 13c.), from Old North French garser "to scarify, cut, slash" (Old French *garse), apparently from Vulgar Latin *charassare, from Greek kharassein "engrave, sharpen, carve, cut," from PIE *gher- (4) "to scrape, scratch" (see character). Loss of -r- is characteristic (see ass (n.2)). Slang use for "vulva" dates to mid-1700s. Provincial English has a set of words (gashly, gashful, etc.) with forms from gash but senses from gast- "dreadful, frightful."
雙語例句
1. He fell back, blood welling from a gash in his thigh.
他向后倒去，鮮血從他大腿上的一個口子里涌了出來。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He howled like a wounded animal as blood spurted from the gash.
當血從傷口中噴出時，他像一只受傷的動物一樣嚎叫起來。
來自柯林斯例句
3. There was an inch-long gash just above his right eye.
就在他右眼的上方有一條一英寸長的傷口。
來自辭典例句
4. The deep gash in his arm would take weeks to heal over.