gash n.1
1. the vagina.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | ‘Green Grow the Rashes O’ in Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 75: The lasses they hae wimble bores, [i.e. small holes] / The widows they hae gashes O. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Toasts’ in Ri-tum Ti-tum Songster 46: The good doctor who is ever able and ready to stop a lady’s gash. | |
| Romance of Lust 15: The pinky gash, with its fleecy hair. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) I 28: A big hairy gash, as it semed, under her arse. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 29: Balafre, f. The female pudendum; ‘the gash’. | |
| Nocturnal Meeting 42: Gameruching the much more formidable gash below. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocab. Criminal Sl. | |
| Anecdota Americana I 72: ‘Here’s where ah cuts de gash dat nevah heals,’ said the groom in an exultant voice. | |
| Tropic of Cancer (1963) 249: There is concealed the ugly gash, the wound that never heals. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 312: He can tell in a flash / But the scent of a gash / Who its previous tenant has been. | |
| Sexus (1969) 239: She did as I told her, pulling her gash open with all her fingers. | |
| letter 14 July in Charters I (1995) 499: A fucking veritable GASH – a great slit between the legs. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 246: Yes! Fate has taken her beauty, / And sin has left a sad scar – / (What a gash!, Gertie!). | |
| Street Players 131: You shouldn’t mind me gettin’ a little gash in my moustache. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 152: So young men talk about the vagina as [...] a gash, a slit, a pole hole. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: gash n. Vagina. Conveniently rhymes with ‘Hoy, giz a flash of your...’. | |
| Get Your Cock Out 6: She skipped to the bathroom to wash her gash. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Peepshow [ebook] You gotta hand over the cash if you wanna see some gash. | |
| (con. 1980s) Skagboys 439: He never shagged her eftir! Ran away fae her gash like it wis a black hole in space. | |
| me-stepmums-too-fuckin-hot-mate at www.fakku.net 🌐 Come’n chuck it in me gash. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 195: [H]er scraggy flapping goatee’d vulva [...] wasn’t a slice of gash which merited his dismounting his steed to pleasure. |
2. (US) the mouth.
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin 332: Shut your old black gash, and get along in with you. | |
| Poganuc People 122: Ef Zeph Higgins would jest shet up his gash in town-meetin’, that air school-house could be moved fast enough. | |
| Shellback 237: Shet your baboon’s gash. | |
| Life In Sing Sing 248: Gash. The mouth. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 15 June 2/3: [T]he vulgar buffoonery of Sayles, who, apparently, simply can’t keep his gash shut. | |
| Keys to Crookdom 419: Squealer – an informer [...] open big gash. | |
| (ref. to 1910) ‘Lingo of the Good People’ AS X:1 16/1: gash [...] The mouth. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 800: gash -The mouth. |
3. any girl or woman, incl. a prostitute.
| Vocab. Criminal Sl. 37: Gash [...] An invidious term for woman; synonymous with flip. | |
| Manhattan Transfer 238: This guy who’s a wellknown lawyer down town was out in the hall bawlin out his gash about something. | |
| ‘Hotel Sl.’ in AS XIV:3 Oct. 239/2: gash Prostitute. | |
| Naked Lunch (1968) 59: I screw the old gash. | |
| Cutter and Bone (2001) 119: This piece of poor spaced-out California child gash. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Geek Love 115: They’ll wonder if I’m balling her, decide that I am, and think I must be a hell of a guy if this gorgeous gash puts out for me. | |
| Lex. of Cadet Lang. 160: usage: ‘My gash likes me to smooth her up a bit first’. | |
| Robbers (2001) 330: He’s shacked up with some gash. | |
 | Skins ser.1 ep.3 [TV script] Don’t be calling our sister no waste gash, nigga. | |
| Introduction in Pulling a Train’ [ebook] ‘Pulling a train’ [...] came from a period when men treated women like ‘broads’ or ‘gashes’. I’vew heard hobos and cons and street thugs in packs used it since the 1940s. | |
| Border [ebook] ‘Do you believe this gash?’ Iván asks Ric. Then he looks at the girl. |
4. a collective term for women as sex objects, i.e. offering the potential for sexual intercourse.
| Committee of Fourteen in First Sexual Revolution (1993) 88: Twenty cunts hanging around here. I said last year there was always a chance of picking up a piece of gash in here. | |
| ‘Merry Clouters’ in Fellow Countrymen (1937) 395: Hennessey, you think of nothing but gash. | |
| Call It Sleep (1977) 409: O’Toole don’ have to buy his gash. | |
| Harder They Fall (1971) 296: The Killer will get you all the gash you want. | |
| On the Waterfront (1964) 217: He had to pay for his gash because he wasn’t good-looking enough. | |
| Exit 3 and Other Stories 38: Ja’ see the pigs crawling around this place. ’Nough ugly gash to make ole peter wrinkle up next to nothin’. | |
| (con. 1973) Times Square 166: Free gash [...] How can you turn it down? | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 36: [He] liked young gash [...] in bed with a fifteen-year-old redhead. | |
| ‘Girls’ 🎵 So much gash no time to rest. | |
| (con. 1960s) Blood’s a Rover 28: All you kids know from is this college-girl gash. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 193: It’s not healthy a kid your age isn’t chasing gash. | |
| Ringer [ebook] n.p.: Got to hand it to the Boneyard. Pulled some gash in here. | |
| Old Scores [ebook] The circle-jerking, the smell of spoof everywhere, gash on everybody’s minds. | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] You get too greedy for cash, gash, or payback, and that’s when you go down. | |
| Widespread Panic 15: What won’t you do for money or gash? |
5. (US) an effeminate, passive homosexual.
| et al. DAUL 77/1: Gash. [...] a passive homosexual. | |
| Sweet Daddy 11: Fat chance catching me running after gash. | |
| Prison Sl. 60: Queen An extremely feminine, passive homosexual. (Archaic: candy, gash). | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 148: Three fags walked up. Dig their muscles and teased hair. They vibed chorus-line gash. |
6. (US gay) the anus, in the context of sodomy.
| Queens’ Vernacular 155: After he has been opened up (fucked), his ass is referred to as gash, nooky, pussy. |
In compounds
one who performs cunnilingus.
| ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants. | |
| Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 18: gash-eater (n.): A cunnilinctor. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 139: cunnilinctrice, [...] gash-eater (pej.). | |
| Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 147: From them she might pick up and more to startle than identify with her sisters use words and expressions such as [...] gash-eater. |
(US) a promiscuous woman; thus a general derog. term for a woman.
| Homeboy 34: That heliumheaded gashgrinder Bermuda Schwartze patting her back going it’s all right now baby. |
a cunnilinguist.
| Lawyer 122: He could hear shrill voices shrieking, ‘Cunt lapper,’ ‘Cunt sucker,’ ‘Gash guzzler,’ and ‘Nookey nosher’ . |
1. (US) a womanizer.
| Sl. of Venery. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 482: Supplied [...] in 1931, by the hobo-song specialist, Godfrey Irwin, who stated he heard it ‘on a ranch near Boise, Idaho, between 1910–12’ [...] ‘A friend to Frankie said, / Your Johnny-boy’s a gash-hound, / Sportin’ on a whore-house bed.’. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Corner Boy 28: Everybody knew his reputation as a gash hound. | |
| (con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 67: He was the biggest gash hound I’d ever met. | |
| (con. 1946) Big Blowdown (1999) 58: You can’t complain about the women [...] Gash-hound like you. | |
| zingmagazine 13 🌐 You’re a gash hound on the prowl. | |
| ‘Amsterdam’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 4 [TV script] Bullshit, Tommy. Once a gash-hound. . . | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘He was weak. A gash hound’. |
2. (US prison) an older homosexual man with a taste for young men or boys.
| et al. DAUL 77/1: Gash-hound. One whose chief avocation is the pursuit of [...] homosexuals, and the like. | |
| Prison Sl. 58: Chicken Hawk A bisexual or homosexual who seeks relationships with young attractive men. (Archaic: uncle, gash hound). |
a pornographic magazine.
| Observer 12 Sept. 22: People for whom sex is The Number One Thing wouldn’t actually read us. They’d read the gash mags. |
In phrases
(Aus.) of a woman, to expose her vagina as an incitement/invitation to intercourse.
| Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 flash your gash (phrase) Invitation for intercourse. Australian term. |
of a woman, to masturbate.
| GeorgeCarlin.com 🌐 Masturbation (Female): greasin’ the gash. |
1. a fake ‘vagina’ sold as a masturbation aid.
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 98 Oct. 24: rubber gashn. Sailor’s favourite. A plastic fanny which the manufacturers claim is ‘better than the real thing’. £8.99. |
2. (also rubber cunt) a term of abuse.
| Outside In Act II: sandy: CUNT! RUBBER CUNT! kate: BITCH! FUCKEN BITCH! |